linux/net/sctp
Weiming Shi 1cd23ca807 sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness
When an ERROR chunk with a STALE_COOKIE cause is received in the
COOKIE_ECHOED state, sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale() reads the 4-byte Measure
of Staleness that follows the cause header:

	err   = (struct sctp_errhdr *)(chunk->skb->data);
	stale = ntohl(*(__be32 *)((u8 *)err + sizeof(*err)));

err is the first cause in the chunk, not the STALE_COOKIE cause that
caused the dispatch, and nothing guarantees the staleness field is
present. sctp_walk_errors() only requires a cause to be as long as the
4-byte header, so for a STALE_COOKIE cause of length 4 the read runs
past the cause, and for a minimal ERROR chunk past skb->tail. The value
is echoed to the peer in the Cookie Preservative of the reply INIT,
leaking uninitialized memory.

sctp_sf_cookie_echoed_err() already walks to the STALE_COOKIE cause, so
check its length there and pass it to sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale(), which
reads that cause instead of the first one. A STALE_COOKIE cause too
short to hold the staleness field is discarded.

The read is reachable by any peer that can drive an association into
COOKIE_ECHOED, including an unprivileged process using a raw SCTP socket
in a user and network namespace.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704033545.2438373-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-07-10 16:51:34 +02:00
..
associola.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
auth.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
bind_addr.c sctp: validate embedded INIT chunk and address list lengths in cookie 2026-06-09 18:16:51 -07:00
chunk.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
debug.c sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
diag.c sctp: hold socket lock when dumping endpoints in sctp_diag 2026-06-17 16:41:34 -07:00
endpointola.c sctp: Fix typo in comment 2026-05-08 16:51:37 -07:00
input.c sctp: fix uninit-value in __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup() 2026-06-09 18:12:30 -07:00
inqueue.c sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments 2026-04-13 16:49:37 -07:00
ipv6.c sctp: Unwind address notifier registration on failure 2026-06-10 08:28:40 -07:00
Kconfig ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs 2026-03-29 11:21:22 -07:00
Makefile sctp: add fair capacity stream scheduler 2023-03-09 11:31:44 +01:00
objcnt.c
offload.c sctp: use skb_crc32c() instead of __skb_checksum() 2025-05-21 15:40:16 -07:00
output.c treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
outqueue.c treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
primitive.c
proc.c net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64 2026-03-06 14:31:26 +01:00
protocol.c sctp: fix addr_wq_timer race in sctp_free_addr_wq() 2026-06-30 16:58:59 -07:00
sm_make_chunk.c sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking 2026-06-27 15:43:40 -07:00
sm_sideeffect.c treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
sm_statefuns.c sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness 2026-07-10 16:51:34 +02:00
sm_statetable.c sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
socket.c sctp: fix SCTP_RESET_STREAMS stream list length limit 2026-06-27 15:39:35 -07:00
stream_interleave.c sctp: delete the nested flexible array skip 2023-04-21 08:19:29 +01:00
stream_sched_fc.c sctp: Constify struct sctp_sched_ops 2025-10-28 17:50:55 -07:00
stream_sched_prio.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
stream_sched_rr.c sctp: Constify struct sctp_sched_ops 2025-10-28 17:50:55 -07:00
stream_sched.c sctp: Constify struct sctp_sched_ops 2025-10-28 17:50:55 -07:00
stream.c sctp: stream: fully roll back denied add-stream state 2026-06-09 17:26:25 -07:00
sysctl.c sctp: Stop accepting md5 and sha1 for net.sctp.cookie_hmac_alg 2025-08-19 19:36:26 -07:00
transport.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
tsnmap.c net: sctp: trivial: fix typo in comment 2021-03-04 13:48:32 -08:00
ulpevent.c net: remove noblock parameter from recvmsg() entities 2022-04-12 15:00:25 +02:00
ulpqueue.c sctp: remove unnecessary NULL check in sctp_ulpq_tail_event() 2022-10-20 21:43:10 -07:00