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netfilter: Zero the tuple in nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple()
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nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple() is called from nfnl_cthelper_new(),
nfnl_cthelper_get() and nfnl_cthelper_del().  In each case they pass
a pointer to an nf_conntrack_tuple data structure local variable:

    struct nf_conntrack_tuple tuple;
    ...
    ret = nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(&tuple, tb[NFCTH_TUPLE]);

The problem is that this local variable is not initialized, and
nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple() only initializes two fields: src.l3num and
dst.protonum.  This leaves all other fields with undefined values
based on whatever is on the stack:

    tuple->src.l3num = ntohs(nla_get_be16(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM]));
    tuple->dst.protonum = nla_get_u8(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM]);

The symptom observed was that when the rpc and tns helpers were added
then traffic to port 1536 was being sent to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Ian Wilson <iwilson@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Ian Wilson authored and Pablo Neira Ayuso committed Mar 12, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple,
if (!tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM] || !tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM])
return -EINVAL;

/* Not all fields are initialized so first zero the tuple */
memset(tuple, 0, sizeof(struct nf_conntrack_tuple));

tuple->src.l3num = ntohs(nla_get_be16(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM]));
tuple->dst.protonum = nla_get_u8(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM]);

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