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bug #22692: TCP: Header length not checked to be > 20

Submitter:  Jared Grubb <jgrubb>
Submitted:  Sat 22 Mar 2008 02:55:22 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  TCP Severity:  6 - Security
Item Group:  Faulty Behaviour Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  None
lwIP version:  None

Mon 24 Mar 2008 05:00:43 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Yes, it's true, but is it really one of the lwIP goal to check such values (this will increase -a  little- the code size)? Of course, the fix should be easy ans small. What about other headers checking? Is there something like that for them ? It doesn't seem there is something like this (a minimal lenght checking) in ip_input.

Frédéric Bernon <fbernon>
Group Member
Mon 24 Mar 2008 03:32:38 PM UTC, comment #3: 

The check Frederic mentions makes sure that there is room for a TCP header in general, but there is no explicit check that the field holding header length is valid (hdrlen must be >= 5). If hdrlen==0, for example, then the TCP header itself will be passed to the application/next layer as data.

Although I can't think of a way that this could be exploited, it is an error in functionality -- and it's easy to fix :).

Jared Grubb <jgrubb>
Group Member
Sat 22 Mar 2008 04:38:26 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I think it should be enough.

Simon Goldschmidt <goldsimon>
Group administrator
Sat 22 Mar 2008 03:58:46 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I'm not sure, but the check line ~112-113 does this :

  /* remove header from payload */
  if (pbuf_header(p, -((s16_t)(IPH_HL(iphdr) * 4))) || (p->tot_len < sizeof(struct tcp_hdr))) {


the second part (evaluate after the pbuf_header) isn't enought ?



Frédéric Bernon <fbernon>
Group Member
Sat 22 Mar 2008 02:55:22 PM UTC, original submission:  

hdrlen = TCPH_HDRLEN(tcphdr);
if(pbuf_header(p, -(hdrlen * 4))){
...
}

There should be a check to make sure that hdrlen >= 5 (ie 20 bytes). The code currently checks whether the hdrlen given will overrun the whole packet, but does not verify that the value is a valid TCP header length.

Jared Grubb <jgrubb>
Group Member

 

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