linux/drivers/net/slip
Weiming Shi 9aafba2f49 slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length
[ Upstream commit 4c1367a2d7 ]

slhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a
pointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper
bounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with
& 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those
error paths are dead code.

A short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields
lets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes
are folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent
reconstructed packets.

Make decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1
when exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read.
The existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260414134126.758795-2-horms@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416100147.531855-5-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-06-01 17:35:39 +02:00
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Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
slhc.c slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length 2026-06-01 17:35:39 +02:00
slip.c drivers: net: slip: fix NPD bug in sl_tx_timeout() 2022-04-20 09:34:17 +02:00
slip.h slip: fix macro redefine warning 2022-03-11 12:22:31 +01:00