Commit 271351d2 authored by Xin Long's avatar Xin Long Committed by David S. Miller

tipc: only accept encrypted MSG_CRYPTO msgs

The MSG_CRYPTO msgs are always encrypted and sent to other nodes
for keys' deployment. But when receiving in peers, if those nodes
do not validate it and make sure it's encrypted, one could craft
a malicious MSG_CRYPTO msg to deploy its key with no need to know
other nodes' keys.

This patch is to do that by checking TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->decrypted
and discard it if this packet never got decrypted.

Note that this is also a supplementary fix to CVE-2021-43267 that
can be triggered by an unencrypted malicious MSG_CRYPTO msg.

Fixes: 1ef6f7c9 ("tipc: add automatic session key exchange")
Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6def4801
......@@ -1298,8 +1298,11 @@ static bool tipc_data_input(struct tipc_link *l, struct sk_buff *skb,
return false;
#ifdef CONFIG_TIPC_CRYPTO
case MSG_CRYPTO:
tipc_crypto_msg_rcv(l->net, skb);
return true;
if (TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->decrypted) {
tipc_crypto_msg_rcv(l->net, skb);
return true;
}
fallthrough;
#endif
default:
pr_warn("Dropping received illegal msg type\n");
......
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