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[PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: sctp: verify vtag before state changes

From: Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-28 07:35:29
Also in: lkml, netfilter-devel, stable
Subsystem: netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The packet-wide vtag check in nf_conntrack_sctp_packet() is skipped when
the bundle map contains any chunk type with special vtag handling.  The
per-chunk path re-checks INIT, ABORT, SHUTDOWN_COMPLETE, and
COOKIE_ECHO, but other state-changing chunks still fall through to
sctp_new_state() without validating sh->vtag.

This lets a wrong-vtag packet bundle HEARTBEAT with COOKIE_ACK, ERROR,
SHUTDOWN, or SHUTDOWN_ACK and still advance conntrack state.  That can
desynchronize conntrack from the real SCTP association and cause denial
of service for SCTP traffic behind a stateful firewall.

Check sh->vtag before processing those chunks when conntrack already
knows the expected direction vtag.  This keeps the existing
HEARTBEAT/HEARTBEAT_ACK learning and connection-reuse behavior for the
`vtag == 0` cases.

Fixes: 9fb9cbb1082d ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <redacted>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <redacted>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <redacted>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <redacted>
Reported-by: Qi Li <redacted>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <redacted>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <redacted>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
index 7e10fa65cbdd..9978ecd05b1e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
@@ -407,9 +407,17 @@ int nf_conntrack_sctp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct,
 			/* (D) vtag must be same as init_vtag as found in INIT_ACK */
 			if (sh->vtag != ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir])
 				goto out_unlock;
-		} else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK) {
-			ct->proto.sctp.init[dir] = 0;
-			ct->proto.sctp.init[!dir] = 0;
+		} else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK ||
+			   sch->type == SCTP_CID_ERROR ||
+			   sch->type == SCTP_CID_SHUTDOWN ||
+			   sch->type == SCTP_CID_SHUTDOWN_ACK) {
+			if (ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir] &&
+			    sh->vtag != ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir])
+				goto out_unlock;
+			if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK) {
+				ct->proto.sctp.init[dir] = 0;
+				ct->proto.sctp.init[!dir] = 0;
+			}
 		} else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_HEARTBEAT) {
 			if (ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir] == 0) {
 				pr_debug("Setting %d vtag %x for dir %d\n", sch->type, sh->vtag, dir);
-- 
2.47.3
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