Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745)
sctp_make_abort_user() now takes the msg_len along with the msg
so that we don't have to recalculate the bytes in iovec.
It also uses memcpy_fromiovec() so that we don't go beyond the
length allocated.
It is good to have this fix even if verify_iovec() is fixed to
return error on overflow.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/sctp.h b/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
index a9663b4..92eae0e 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
@@ -404,19 +404,6 @@
return ((head->next != head) && (head->next == head->prev));
}
-/* Calculate the size (in bytes) occupied by the data of an iovec. */
-static inline size_t get_user_iov_size(struct iovec *iov, int iovlen)
-{
- size_t retval = 0;
-
- for (; iovlen > 0; --iovlen) {
- retval += iov->iov_len;
- iov++;
- }
-
- return retval;
-}
-
/* Generate a random jitter in the range of -50% ~ +50% of input RTO. */
static inline __s32 sctp_jitter(__u32 rto)
{
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/sm.h b/include/net/sctp/sm.h
index 1eac3d0..de313de 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/sm.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/sm.h
@@ -221,8 +221,7 @@
const struct sctp_chunk *,
__u32 tsn);
struct sctp_chunk *sctp_make_abort_user(const struct sctp_association *,
- const struct sctp_chunk *,
- const struct msghdr *);
+ const struct msghdr *, size_t msg_len);
struct sctp_chunk *sctp_make_abort_violation(const struct sctp_association *,
const struct sctp_chunk *,
const __u8 *,