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From:   Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 20:27:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix a potential missing-check bug
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
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        Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
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On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
<marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:15:45PM -0500, Wenwen Wang wrote:
>> In sctp_setsockopt_maxseg(), the integer 'val' is compared against min_len
>> and max_len to check whether it is in the appropriate range. If it is not,
>> an error code -EINVAL will be returned. This is enforced by a security
>> check. But, this check is only executed when 'val' is not 0. In fact, if
>> 'val' is 0, it will be assigned with a new value (if the return value of
>> the function sctp_id2assoc() is not 0) in the following execution. However,
>> this new value of 'val' is not checked before it is used to assigned to
>> asoc->user_frag. That means it is possible that the new value of 'val'
>> could be out of the expected range. This can cause security issues
>> such as buffer overflows, e.g., the new value of 'val' is used as an index
>> to access a buffer.
>>
>> This patch inserts a check for the new value of 'val' to see if it is in
>> the expected range. If it is not, an error code -EINVAL will be returned.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
>> ---
>>  net/sctp/socket.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> ?
> This patch is the same as previous one. git send-email <old file>
> maybe?
>
>   Marcelo

Thanks for your suggestion, Marcelo. I can send the old file. But, I
have added a line of comment in this patch.

Wenwen