Xiang Mei 6fe8d3cecd netfilter: ebtables: terminate table name before find_table_lock()
commit a622d2e960 upstream.

update_counters() and compat_update_counters() forward a user-supplied
32-byte table name to find_table_lock() without NUL-terminating it. On a
lookup miss, find_inlist_lock() calls try_then_request_module(..., "%s%s",
"ebtable_", name), and vsnprintf() reads past the name field and the
stack object until it hits a zero byte.

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880119dfb20 by task exploit/147
  Call Trace:
  ...
   string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
   vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945)
   __request_module (kernel/module/kmod.c:150)
   do_update_counters.isra.0 (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:371 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:380)
   update_counters (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1440)
   do_ebt_set_ctl (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:2573)
   nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101)
   ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1424)
   raw_setsockopt (net/ipv4/raw.c:847)
   __sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2393)
  ...

compat_do_replace() shares the same unterminated name via
compat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(); terminate it there too so all
find_table_lock() callers behave alike. The other callers already
terminate the name after the copy.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 81e675c227 ("netfilter: ebtables: add CONFIG_COMPAT support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-07-18 16:53:17 +02:00
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