[PATCH 2/3] net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket()

Mashiro Chen <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Apr 2026 01:15:59 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-hams,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
nr_find_socket() dispatches incoming NR_INFO frames into a connected
socket by matching the frame's circuit index/id pair (bytes[15-16])
against the socket's my_index/my_id.  It performs no validation of
the frame's source callsign against the socket's dest_addr.

This means any node on the network can craft an NR_INFO frame with
a guessed or brute-forced circuit index/id pair and have it accepted
into an arbitrary STATE_3 connection as if it came from the legitimate
peer.  Circuit IDs are assigned sequentially starting at (1,1), making
them predictable in practice.

This is exploited in concert with CVE-XXXX-XXXXX (nr_queue_rx_frame
fraglen overflow): an attacker can inject NR_INFO | NR_MORE_FLAG frames
into an existing connection without owning a connection themselves,
driving the victim socket's fraglen to wrap and triggering the heap
overflow entirely unauthenticated (CVSS PR:N).

Fix by adding a source address parameter to nr_find_socket() and
requiring it to match the socket's recorded dest_addr for all
frame-dispatch lookups.  The internal nr_find_next_circuit() caller,
which only checks for circuit ID availability, passes NULL to skip
the source check.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mashiro Chen <[email protected]>
---
 net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
index b605891bf86e4..73742cc9e9e42 100644
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ static struct sock *nr_find_listener(ax25_address *addr)
 /*
  *	Find a connected NET/ROM socket given my circuit IDs.
  */
-static struct sock *nr_find_socket(unsigned char index, unsigned char id)
+static struct sock *nr_find_socket(unsigned char index, unsigned char id,
+				   const ax25_address *src)
 {
 	struct sock *s;
 
@@ -170,7 +171,8 @@ static struct sock *nr_find_socket(unsigned char index, unsigned char id)
 	sk_for_each(s, &nr_list) {
 		struct nr_sock *nr = nr_sk(s);
 
-		if (nr->my_index == index && nr->my_id == id) {
+		if (nr->my_index == index && nr->my_id == id &&
+		    (!src || !ax25cmp(&nr->dest_addr, src))) {
 			sock_hold(s);
 			goto found;
 		}
@@ -219,7 +221,8 @@ static unsigned short nr_find_next_circuit(void)
 		j = id % 256;
 
 		if (i != 0 && j != 0) {
-			if ((sk=nr_find_socket(i, j)) == NULL)
+			sk = nr_find_socket(i, j, NULL);
+			if (!sk)
 				break;
 			sock_put(sk);
 		}
@@ -926,7 +929,7 @@ int nr_rx_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		if (frametype == NR_CONNREQ)
 			sk = nr_find_peer(circuit_index, circuit_id, src);
 		else
-			sk = nr_find_socket(circuit_index, circuit_id);
+			sk = nr_find_socket(circuit_index, circuit_id, src);
 	}
 
 	if (sk != NULL) {
-- 
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