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tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS
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The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Tomas Hozza authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Nov 15, 2012
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
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Expand Up @@ -1486,13 +1486,19 @@ int main(void)
len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
addr_p, &addr_l);

if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
if (len < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
close(fd);
return -1;
}

if (addr.nl_pid) {
syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Received packet from untrusted pid:%u",
addr.nl_pid);
continue;
}

incoming_msg = (struct nlmsghdr *)kvp_recv_buffer;
incoming_cn_msg = (struct cn_msg *)NLMSG_DATA(incoming_msg);
hv_msg = (struct hv_kvp_msg *)incoming_cn_msg->data;
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