This at least needs CAP_NET_ADMIN.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Bryan Fulton wrote:
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> // 3: /net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c::do_replace //
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> - tainted unsigned scalar tmp.num_counters multiplied and passed to
> vmalloc (1161) and memset (1166) which could overflow or be too large
>
> Call to function "copy_from_user" TAINTS argument "tmp"
>
> 1143 if (copy_from_user(&tmp, user, sizeof(tmp)) != 0)
> 1144 return -EFAULT;
>
> ...
>
> TAINTED variable "((tmp).num_counters * 16)" was passed to a tainted
> sink.
>
> 1161 counters = vmalloc(tmp.num_counters * sizeof(struct
> ip6t_counters));
> 1162 if (!counters) {
> 1163 ret = -ENOMEM;
> 1164 goto free_newinfo;
> 1165 }
>
> TAINTED variable "((tmp).num_counters * 16)" was passed to a tainted
> sink.
>
> 1166 memset(counters, 0, tmp.num_counters * sizeof(struct
> ip6t_counters));
>
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
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