From: Florian Westphal <[email protected]> Ben Hawkes says: integer overflow in xt_alloc_table_info, which on 32-bit systems can lead to small structure allocation and a copy_from_user based heap corruption.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]> --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index d0cd2b9..582c9cf 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -659,6 +659,9 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size) struct xt_table_info *info = NULL; size_t sz = sizeof(*info) + size; + if (sz < sizeof(*info)) + return NULL; + /* Pedantry: prevent them from hitting BUG() in vmalloc.c --RR */ if ((SMP_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages) return NULL; -- 2.1.4
