[PATCH 5.15 111/935] SUNRPC: harden gss_unwrap_resp_priv length checks

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 17:08:54
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chris Mason <redacted>

commit 87831b92112c81db251d46756d65daa4f91af6a2 upstream.

gss_unwrap_resp_priv() validates the RPCSEC_GSS opaque length with

    offset = (u8 *)(p) - (u8 *)head->iov_base;
    if (offset + opaque_len > rcv_buf->len)
            goto unwrap_failed;
    maj_stat = gss_unwrap(ctx->gc_gss_ctx, offset,
                          offset + opaque_len, rcv_buf);

Both operands are u32 and the sum is computed in u32. A reply with
opaque_len near 0xffffffff makes offset + opaque_len wrap to a small
value that is below rcv_buf->len, so the bound check passes and
gss_unwrap() is called with end < begin. The check also lacks a
lower bound, so any opaque_len in [0, GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN) is
accepted and forwarded to gss_krb5_unwrap_v2(), whose pre-decrypt
header reads at ptr+4 and ptr+6 then run past the token.

A krb5p NFS server returning a crafted RPCSEC_GSS reply can drive
the client into out-of-bounds reads in gss_krb5_unwrap_v2() and the
rotate_left() loop that follows.

Fix by replacing the single combined check with three guards that
are safe in u32 arithmetic and that enforce the RFC 4121 minimum
outer token length:

    if (offset > rcv_buf->len)
            goto unwrap_failed;
    if (opaque_len > rcv_buf->len - offset)
            goto unwrap_failed;
    if (opaque_len < GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN)
            goto unwrap_failed;

The first guard makes the subtraction in the second guard
unconditionally safe; offset is derived from a successful
xdr_inline_decode() in the head kvec, so in practice it already
satisfies the bound. The floor mirrors the server-side check added
in commit 5b757c2e57a5 ("SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: enforce krb5 token
minimum length").

Fixes: 2d2da60c63b6 ("RPCSEC_GSS: client-side privacy support")
Cc: <redacted>
Assisted-by: kres (claude-opus-4-7)
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260524010213.557424-3-cel@kernel.org (local)
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -2050,7 +2050,11 @@ gss_unwrap_resp_priv(struct rpc_task *ta
 		goto unwrap_failed;
 	opaque_len = be32_to_cpup(p++);
 	offset = (u8 *)(p) - (u8 *)head->iov_base;
-	if (offset + opaque_len > rcv_buf->len)
+	if (offset > rcv_buf->len)
+		goto unwrap_failed;
+	if (opaque_len > rcv_buf->len - offset)
+		goto unwrap_failed;
+	if (opaque_len <= GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN)
 		goto unwrap_failed;
 
 	maj_stat = gss_unwrap(ctx->gc_gss_ctx, offset,

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