[PATCH net 04/10] netfilter: ip6t_rt: fix zero-address non-strict match out-of-bounds read
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: 2026-09-16 23:17:04
Also in:
netfilter-devel
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Luxiao Xu <redacted>
rt_mt6_check() permits rules to be configured with rtinfo->addrnr == 0
even when address matching (IP6T_RT_FST_MASK) is requested.
In the IP6T_RT_FST_NSTRICT path, rt_mt6() evaluates packet routing
addresses against rtinfo->addrs[i] and terminates backwards at the bottom
of the loop:
if (ipv6_addr_equal(ap, &rtinfo->addrs[i])) {
i++;
}
if (i == rtinfo->addrnr)
break;
When addrnr is 0, if the first packet address matches rtinfo->addrs[0],
i is incremented to 1. Because i is now strictly greater than addrnr (0),
the loop termination condition (i == rtinfo->addrnr) is bypassed and will
never be satisfied.
If a crafted IPv6 packet contains matching routing addresses, i will
advance past IP6T_RT_HOPS (16). The subsequent call to ipv6_addr_equal()
reads beyond struct ip6t_rt, triggering UBSAN/KASAN out-of-bounds warnings
or kernel panics.
Fix this by:
1. Rejecting rules in rt_mt6_check() where IP6T_RT_FST_MASK is set but
rtinfo->addrnr is zero.
2. In rt_mt6(), moving the termination condition (i < rtinfo->addrnr)
into the for-loop header condition and removing the backwards break
at the end of the loop body.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <redacted>
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c
index 8051425213dd..9880faf3cc7d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static bool rt_mt6(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct xt_action_param *par) unsigned int i = 0; for (temp = 0; - temp < (unsigned int)((hdrlen - 8) / 16); + temp < (unsigned int)((hdrlen - 8) / 16) && + i < rtinfo->addrnr; temp++) { ap = skb_header_pointer(skb, ptr
@@ -112,8 +113,6 @@ static bool rt_mt6(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct xt_action_param *par) if (ipv6_addr_equal(ap, &rtinfo->addrs[i])) i++; - if (i == rtinfo->addrnr) - break; } if (i == rtinfo->addrnr) return ret;
@@ -162,6 +161,12 @@ static int rt_mt6_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) pr_info_ratelimited("too many addresses specified\n"); return -EINVAL; } + + if ((rtinfo->flags & IP6T_RT_FST_MASK) && !rtinfo->addrnr) { + pr_info_ratelimited("address list match requested but addrnr is 0\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + if ((rtinfo->flags & (IP6T_RT_RES | IP6T_RT_FST_MASK)) && (!(rtinfo->flags & IP6T_RT_TYP) || (rtinfo->rt_type != 0) ||
--
2.47.3