[PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: sctp: verify vtag before state changes
Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:35:06 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.stable,gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel,gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The packet-wide vtag check in nf_conntrack_sctp_packet() is skipped when
the bundle map contains any chunk type with special vtag handling. The
per-chunk path re-checks INIT, ABORT, SHUTDOWN_COMPLETE, and
COOKIE_ECHO, but other state-changing chunks still fall through to
sctp_new_state() without validating sh->vtag.
This lets a wrong-vtag packet bundle HEARTBEAT with COOKIE_ACK, ERROR,
SHUTDOWN, or SHUTDOWN_ACK and still advance conntrack state. That can
desynchronize conntrack from the real SCTP association and cause denial
of service for SCTP traffic behind a stateful firewall.
Check sh->vtag before processing those chunks when conntrack already
knows the expected direction vtag. This keeps the existing
HEARTBEAT/HEARTBEAT_ACK learning and connection-reuse behavior for the
`vtag == 0` cases.
Fixes: 9fb9cbb1082d ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Qi Li <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
index 7e10fa65cbdd..9978ecd05b1e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
@@ -407,9 +407,17 @@ int nf_conntrack_sctp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct,
/* (D) vtag must be same as init_vtag as found in INIT_ACK */
if (sh->vtag != ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir])
goto out_unlock;
- } else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK) {
- ct->proto.sctp.init[dir] = 0;
- ct->proto.sctp.init[!dir] = 0;
+ } else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK ||
+ sch->type == SCTP_CID_ERROR ||
+ sch->type == SCTP_CID_SHUTDOWN ||
+ sch->type == SCTP_CID_SHUTDOWN_ACK) {
+ if (ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir] &&
+ sh->vtag != ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir])
+ goto out_unlock;
+ if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ACK) {
+ ct->proto.sctp.init[dir] = 0;
+ ct->proto.sctp.init[!dir] = 0;
+ }
} else if (sch->type == SCTP_CID_HEARTBEAT) {
if (ct->proto.sctp.vtag[dir] == 0) {
pr_debug("Setting %d vtag %x for dir %d\n", sch->type, sh->vtag, dir);
--
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