The following patches
1/3 firewire: net: guard against rx buffer overflows
2/3 firewire: net: fix fragmented datagram_size off-by-one
3/3 firewire: net: max MTU off by one
fix a few long-standing bugs of the IP-over-1394 driver firewire-net
related to reception and transmission of fragmented datagrams:
- RX: Missing validation of fragment offset and size makes the driver
vulnerable to buffer overflows, potentially leading to remote¹ code
execution. Reported by Eyal Itkin.
¹) The vulnerability cannot be triggered by malformed IP datagrams,
but by malformed IEEE 1394 packets sent from other FireWire nodes to
the 1394 broadcast channel or to firewire-net's unicast FIFO, or can
be sent from the local node to the unicast FIFO by sufficiently
privileged userland. I.e. an attack can only originate from somewhere
on the FireWire bus, not from another network that is bridged to the
FireWire bus.
- RX: Missing validation of unfragmented and fragmented datagrams for
minimum packet size before looking at GASP header and encapsulation
header.
- RX and TX: The datagram_size field of fragmented datagrams was read
and written incorrectly; an offset of +/-1 needs to be applied. This
prevents fragmented traffic from/to nodes which run OS X, Windows XP,
or Linux' older eth1394 driver. (Traffic from Win XP would eventually
be retried with smaller MTU and possibly succeed slowly despite the
bug.)
Patch 1/3 is obviously urgent.
Patch 2/3 is a bit of a bother because while it fixes fragmented RX/TX with
OS X, Win XP, and eth1394, it does disrupt fragmented RX/TX with Linux
nodes which run an unfixed firewire-net.
Patch 3/3 will only apply in conjunction with changes that are queued up
in the net-next git tree, hence this patch will wait until net-next was
merged.
Patches 1+2/3 are already pushed out to linux1394.git "testing" and
"for-next" branches, but I still like to get review comments before I
send a pull request.
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Stefan Richter
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