[PATCH nf v2] ipvs: clear IPv4 options after rebasing tunnel ICMP errors

David Lee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network,gmane.comp.linux.lvs.devel,gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Kyle Zeng <[email protected]>

ip_vs_in_icmp() rebases an skb from the outer ICMP packet to the
quoted original request before passing it to icmp_send(). However,
IPCB(skb)->opt still describes the outer IPv4 header.

A timestamp option in the outer header can therefore leave an offset
that points into the quoted transport header after the rebase.
__ip_options_echo() treats a byte at that stale location as the option
length and copies it into the fixed-size option storage on the
__icmp_send() stack, causing a stack out-of-bounds write.

Clear the stale option metadata after resetting the network header.
Keep the remaining control block fields, including the ingress
interface used by the ICMP response path.

Fixes: f2edb9f7706d ("ipvs: implement passive PMTUD for IPIP packets")
Cc: [email protected]
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: David Lee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Lee <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add the nf tree prefix to the subject.
- Restore Kyle Zeng as the patch author and correct the sign-off chain.
- Move the research credit below the commit-message separator.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/

Bug found and triaged by OpenAI Security Research and
validated by Trail of Bits.

Trail of Bits has a reproducer for this bug that triggers a
KASAN stack-out-of-bounds write in __ip_options_echo() and can share
if needed.

 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index bafab9345..fe06c380c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ ip_vs_in_icmp(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb, int *related,
 		if (pskb_pull(skb, offset2) == NULL)
 			goto ignore_tunnel;
 		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
+		memset(&(IPCB(skb)->opt), 0, sizeof(IPCB(skb)->opt));
 		/* Ensure the IP header is present in headroom */
 		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, hlen_orig))
 			goto ignore_tunnel;
-- 
2.53.0
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