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| author | Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> | 2012-11-08 10:53:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-03-27 02:41:03 +0000 |
| commit | 723353fdc4de94bf78026b6c17cf9dbbe5f29a1a (patch) | |
| tree | f4c70b068a7ff5e9467fceeec2b76e28b0a6b1c0 /tools/hv | |
| parent | bd8a48b71de28098f662ce8dfb919ea4eff28103 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-723353fdc4de94bf78026b6c17cf9dbbe5f29a1a.tar.gz lwn-723353fdc4de94bf78026b6c17cf9dbbe5f29a1a.zip | |
tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS
commit 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef upstream.
The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/hv')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c index 0961d887720e..5e19410664d9 100644 --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c @@ -393,13 +393,19 @@ int main(void) len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0, addr_p, &addr_l); - if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) { + if (len < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s", addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno)); close(fd); return -1; } + if (addr.nl_pid) { + syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Received packet from untrusted pid:%u", + addr.nl_pid); + continue; + } + incoming_msg = (struct nlmsghdr *)kvp_recv_buffer; incoming_cn_msg = (struct cn_msg *)NLMSG_DATA(incoming_msg); |