[PATCH 6.1 0964/1191] nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and add length checks

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 16:41:18
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <redacted>

[ Upstream commit f4c7f37f0ab990952539dc68d931d65c3657600a ]

nfc_llcp_recv_snl() walked the SNL TLV list using a u16 offset/length
pair derived from skb->len, without bounding reads to the actual skb
data. Three problems followed:

  - For a short frame (skb->len < LLCP_HEADER_SIZE), tlv_len underflowed.
  - The per-TLV header (type, length) was read without checking that two
    bytes remained.
  - A declared TLV length could run past the end of the buffer, and an
    SDREQ with length == 0 made "service_name_len = length - 1" underflow
    (size_t), driving an out-of-bounds read in the following strncmp() /
    nfc_llcp_sock_from_sn(). The SDRES case likewise read tlv[2]/tlv[3]
    without a length check.

A nearby NFC device can reach this without authentication; LLCP link
activation happens automatically after NFC-DEP.

Walk the TLV list by pointer, bounded by skb_tail_pointer() over the
linear skb data, and validate each TLV declared length before use. Add
explicit length checks for SDREQ (>= 1) and SDRES (exactly 2).

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Fixes: 19cfe5843e86 ("NFC: Initial SNL support")
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609202543.42282-1-doruk@0sec.ai (local)
Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
index db050f4faa5b6..7b86faf3f4ce5 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
@@ -1286,10 +1286,9 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
 {
 	struct nfc_llcp_sock *llcp_sock;
 	u8 dsap, ssap, type, length, tid, sap;
-	const u8 *tlv;
-	u16 tlv_len, offset;
+	const u8 *tlv, *tlv_end;
 	const char *service_name;
-	size_t service_name_len;
+	int service_name_len;
 	struct nfc_llcp_sdp_tlv *sdp;
 	HLIST_HEAD(llc_sdres_list);
 	size_t sdres_tlvs_len;
@@ -1305,22 +1304,34 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Walk the SNL TLV list in the linear part of the skb only,
+	 * bounded by skb_tail_pointer(). Each TLV needs a two-byte
+	 * header (type, length) and its declared length must fit before
+	 * the end; this also keeps the walk safe for very short frames.
+	 */
 	tlv = &skb->data[LLCP_HEADER_SIZE];
-	tlv_len = skb->len - LLCP_HEADER_SIZE;
-	offset = 0;
+	tlv_end = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
 	sdres_tlvs_len = 0;
 
-	while (offset < tlv_len) {
+	while (tlv + 2 < tlv_end) {
 		type = tlv[0];
 		length = tlv[1];
 
+		if (tlv + 2 + length > tlv_end)
+			break;
+
 		switch (type) {
 		case LLCP_TLV_SDREQ:
+			if (length < 1)
+				break;
+
 			tid = tlv[2];
 			service_name = (char *) &tlv[3];
 			service_name_len = length - 1;
 
-			pr_debug("Looking for %.16s\n", service_name);
+			pr_debug("Looking for %.*s\n", service_name_len,
+				 service_name);
 
 			if (service_name_len == strlen("urn:nfc:sn:sdp") &&
 			    !strncmp(service_name, "urn:nfc:sn:sdp",
@@ -1380,6 +1391,9 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
 			break;
 
 		case LLCP_TLV_SDRES:
+			if (length != 2)
+				break;
+
 			mutex_lock(&local->sdreq_lock);
 
 			pr_debug("LLCP_TLV_SDRES: searching tid %d\n", tlv[2]);
@@ -1408,7 +1422,6 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		offset += length + 2;
 		tlv += length + 2;
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0


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