From 2cb0b0b1ed69430bf73740377ea0a1c44c50db63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Martin Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:24:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sctp: fix soft lockup from unpadded ASCONF-ACK parameter iteration sctp_verify_asconf() walks ASCONF-ACK parameters with sctp_walk_params(), which advances by SCTP_PAD4(length), while the consumer sctp_get_asconf_response() iterates the same parameters advancing by the raw length, without padding. A single odd-length parameter desynchronises the two walks and makes the consumer interpret attacker-controlled bytes at a misaligned offset. When those bytes yield a length of zero, the while loop over asconf_ack_len makes no progress, spinning forever in softirq context, and the watchdog reports a soft lockup. All reads stay within the received skb, so the lockup is a pure remote denial of service. A remote peer can trigger it with a crafted ASCONF-ACK on an ADD-IP enabled association with an outstanding ASCONF (RFC 5061 section 4.1.2 requires the chunk to be authenticated, but the predefined empty key id 0 allows the peer to compute the same association HMAC from publicly exchanged parameters, so the gate does not help). The SCTP_PARAM_ERR_CAUSE case of sctp_verify_asconf() also performs no length check, letting a parameter without a complete error header reach the consumer, which reads errhdr.cause past the end of the parameter, an out-of-bounds read. Reject SCTP_PARAM_ERR_CAUSE parameters shorter than sizeof(struct sctp_addip_param) + sizeof(struct sctp_errhdr) at the verifier, and advance the consumer iterator with the same padding rule as the verifier to keep the two walks in lockstep. The verifier change guarantees a complete error header in every ERR_CAUSE parameter the consumer can see, so the consumer's asconf_ack_len check is dropped and it returns err_param->cause directly. The consumer padding fix is still required because odd lengths remain valid for SCTP_PARAM_ERR_CAUSE per RFC 5061. The issue was found by ZeroHive, a vulnerability hunting agent at Tencent Yunding Lab. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Henry Martin Acked-by: Xin Long Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260828042431.3873725-1-bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c index 236e25abc7a4..84a4c97d0f75 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c @@ -3215,6 +3215,9 @@ bool sctp_verify_asconf(const struct sctp_association *asoc, *errp = param.p; switch (param.p->type) { case SCTP_PARAM_ERR_CAUSE: + if (length < sizeof(struct sctp_addip_param) + + sizeof(struct sctp_errhdr)) + return false; break; case SCTP_PARAM_IPV4_ADDRESS: if (length != sizeof(struct sctp_ipv4addr_param)) @@ -3448,20 +3451,15 @@ static __be16 sctp_get_asconf_response(struct sctp_chunk *asconf_ack, case SCTP_PARAM_ERR_CAUSE: length = sizeof(*asconf_ack_param); err_param = (void *)asconf_ack_param + length; - asconf_ack_len -= length; - if (asconf_ack_len > 0) - return err_param->cause; - else - return SCTP_ERROR_INV_PARAM; - break; + return err_param->cause; default: return SCTP_ERROR_INV_PARAM; } } length = ntohs(asconf_ack_param->param_hdr.length); - asconf_ack_param = (void *)asconf_ack_param + length; - asconf_ack_len -= length; + asconf_ack_param = (void *)asconf_ack_param + SCTP_PAD4(length); + asconf_ack_len -= SCTP_PAD4(length); } return err_code;