[PATCH net v5 19/21] rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator()
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 05:12:47 PDT 2026
Fix rxgk_do_verify_authenticator() to check the buffer size before checking
the nonce.
Fixes: 9d1d2b59341f ("rxrpc: rxgk: Implement the yfs-rxgk security class (GSSAPI)")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260401105614.1696001-10-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
---
net/rxrpc/rxgk.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c b/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c
index c67e3c2ca871..0d5e654da918 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,9 @@ static int rxgk_do_verify_authenticator(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
_enter("");
+ if ((end - p) * sizeof(__be32) < 24)
+ return rxrpc_abort_conn(conn, skb, RXGK_NOTAUTH, -EPROTO,
+ rxgk_abort_resp_short_auth);
if (memcmp(p, conn->rxgk.nonce, 20) != 0)
return rxrpc_abort_conn(conn, skb, RXGK_NOTAUTH, -EPROTO,
rxgk_abort_resp_bad_nonce);
@@ -1098,7 +1101,7 @@ static int rxgk_do_verify_authenticator(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
p += xdr_round_up(app_len) / sizeof(__be32);
if (end - p < 4)
return rxrpc_abort_conn(conn, skb, RXGK_NOTAUTH, -EPROTO,
- rxgk_abort_resp_short_applen);
+ rxgk_abort_resp_short_auth);
level = ntohl(*p++);
epoch = ntohl(*p++);
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