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[APPLETALK]: Fix a remotely triggerable crash

When we receive an AppleTalk frame shorter than what its header says,
we still attempt to verify its checksum, and trip on the BUG_ON() at
the end of function atalk_sum_skb() because of the length mismatch.

This has security implications because this can be triggered by simply
sending a specially crafted ethernet frame to a target victim,
effectively crashing that host. Thus this qualifies, I think, as a
remote DoS. Here is the frame I used to trigger the crash, in npg
format:

<Appletalk Killer>
{
# Ethernet header -----

XX XX XX XX XX XX # Destination MAC
00 00 00 00 00 00 # Source MAC
00 1D # Length

# LLC header -----

AA AA 03
08 00 07 80 9B # Appletalk

# Appletalk header -----

00 1B # Packet length (invalid)
00 01 # Fake checksum
00 00 00 00 # Destination and source networks
00 00 00 00 # Destination and source nodes and ports

# Payload -----

0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13
14
}

The destination MAC address must be set to those of the victim.

The severity is mitigated by two requirements:
* The target host must have the appletalk kernel module loaded. I
suspect this isn't so frequent.
* AppleTalk frames are non-IP, thus I guess they can only travel on
local networks. I am no network expert though, maybe it is possible
to somehow encapsulate AppleTalk packets over IP.

The bug has been reported back in June 2004:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979
But it wasn't investigated, and was closed in July 2006 as both
reporters had vanished meanwhile.

This code was new in kernel 2.6.0-test5:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=7ab442d7e0a76402c12553ee256f756097cae2d2
And not modified since then, so we can assume that vanilla kernels
2.6.0-test5 and later, and distribution kernels based thereon, are
affected.

Note that I still do not know for sure what triggered the bug in the
real-world cases. The frame could have been corrupted by the kernel if
we have a bug hiding somewhere. But more likely, we are receiving the
faulty frame from the network.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

authored by

Jean Delvare and committed by
David S. Miller
75559c16 58e94913

+5 -2
+5 -2
net/appletalk/ddp.c
··· 1417 1417 /* 1418 1418 * Size check to see if ddp->deh_len was crap 1419 1419 * (Otherwise we'll detonate most spectacularly 1420 - * in the middle of recvmsg()). 1420 + * in the middle of atalk_checksum() or recvmsg()). 1421 1421 */ 1422 - if (skb->len < sizeof(*ddp)) 1422 + if (skb->len < sizeof(*ddp) || skb->len < (len_hops & 1023)) { 1423 + pr_debug("AppleTalk: dropping corrupted frame (deh_len=%u, " 1424 + "skb->len=%u)\n", len_hops & 1023, skb->len); 1423 1425 goto freeit; 1426 + } 1424 1427 1425 1428 /* 1426 1429 * Any checksums. Note we don't do htons() on this == is assumed to be