The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 8b7342d673d31e7aa60baae35321c11532275cdb Author: Antonio Quartulli &lt;ordex(a)autistici.org&gt; Date: Sun Oct 16 20:32:03 2011 +0200 batman-adv: check for tt_reponse packet real length Before accessing the TT_RESPONSE packet payload, the node has to ensure that the packet is long enough as it would expect to be. Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich &lt;siwu(a)hrz.tu-chemnitz.de&gt; Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli &lt;ordex(a)autistici.org&gt; Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann &lt;sven(a)narfation.org&gt; diff --git a/net/batman-adv/routing.c b/net/batman-adv/routing.c index e0e7b7b..ef24a72 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ int recv_tt_query(struct sk_buff *skb, struct hard_iface *recv_if) { struct bat_priv *bat_priv = netdev_priv(recv_if->soft_iface); struct tt_query_packet *tt_query; + uint16_t tt_len; struct ethhdr *ethhdr; /* drop packet if it has not necessary minimum size */ @@ -622,6 +623,14 @@ int recv_tt_query(struct sk_buff *skb, struct hard_iface *recv_if) if (skb_linearize(skb) < 0) goto out; + tt_len = tt_query->tt_data * sizeof(struct tt_change); + + /* Ensure we have all the claimed data */ + if (unlikely(skb_headlen(skb) < + sizeof(struct tt_query_packet) + + tt_len)) + goto out; + handle_tt_response(bat_priv, tt_query); } else { bat_dbg(DBG_TT, bat_priv, -- LinuxNextTracking