From: Vlad Yasevich Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: sctp: correct bounds check in sctp_setsockopt_auth_key X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc5~8^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=328fc47ea0bcc27d9afa69c3ad6e52431cadd76c;p=linux-2.6 sctp: correct bounds check in sctp_setsockopt_auth_key The bonds check to prevent buffer overlflow was not exactly right. It still allowed overflow of up to 8 bytes which is sizeof(struct sctp_authkey). Since optlen is already checked against the size of that struct, we are guaranteed not to cause interger overflow either. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index afa952e726..9b9b2c31dd 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_auth_key(struct sock *sk, goto out; } - if (authkey->sca_keylength > optlen) { + if (authkey->sca_keylength > optlen - sizeof(struct sctp_authkey)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; }