ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash
An independent security researcher, Mohamed Ghannam, has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program. The xfrm_dump_policy_done function expects xfrm_dump_policy to have been called at least once or it will crash. This can be triggered if a dump fails because the target socket's receive buffer is full. This patch fixes it by using the cb->start mechanism to ensure that the initialisation is always done regardless of the buffer situation. Fixes: 12a169e7 ("ipsec: Put dumpers on the dump list") Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> CVE-2017-16939 (cherry picked from commit 1137b5e2) Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com> Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
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