[SLOF] [PATCH 1/3] ipv6: Do not use unitialized MAC address array

[Thomas Huth]

The code in send_ipv6() currently basically looks like this:

	uint8_t *mac_addr, mac[6];
	mac_addr = mac;
	...
	n = find_neighbor (&ip_dst);
	if (ip6_is_multicast (&ip_dst)) {
		mac_addr = ip6_to_multicast_mac (&ip_dst, mac);
	}
	else {
		// Check if the MAC address is already cached
		if (n) {
			if (memcmp(n->mac, null_mac, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
				memcpy (mac_addr, &(n->mac), ETH_ALEN);
			/* XXX */
		}
		...
	}
	...
	fill_ethhdr (n->eth_frame, htons(ETHERTYPE_IPv6), get_mac_address(),
		     mac_addr);

That means mac_addr initially points to the uninitialized mac[6]
array on the stack. Now if there was already an entry in the neighbor
cache, but the MAC address has not been determined yet, that
uninitialized array could be used as final MAC address for fill_ethhdr()
(since there is no "else" path at the spot marked with XXX above),
resulting in random data in the MAC address field of the ethernet packet.

Let's fix this issue by letting mac_addr point to the null_mac by
default instead, so that it never points to invalid data. Also
rename mac[6] to mc_mac[6] to make it clear that this array is
only used for storing the multicast mac address.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
---
 clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c b/clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c
index 348e79d..5a307ca 100644
--- a/clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c
+++ b/clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c
@@ -491,9 +491,9 @@ int send_ipv6(int fd, void* buffer, int len)
 	struct udphdr *udph;
 	struct icmp6hdr *icmp6h;
 	ip6_addr_t ip_dst;
-	uint8_t *mac_addr, mac[6];
+	uint8_t *mac_addr, mc_mac[6];
 
-	mac_addr = mac;
+	mac_addr = null_mac;
 
 	ip6h    = (struct ip6hdr *) buffer;
 	udph   = (struct udphdr *)   ((uint8_t *) ip6h + sizeof (struct ip6hdr));
@@ -526,13 +526,13 @@ int send_ipv6(int fd, void* buffer, int len)
 
 	// If address is a multicast address, create a proper mac address
 	if (ip6_is_multicast (&ip_dst)) {
-		mac_addr = ip6_to_multicast_mac (&ip_dst, mac);
+		mac_addr = ip6_to_multicast_mac (&ip_dst, mc_mac);
 	}
 	else {
 		// Check if the MAC address is already cached
 		if (n) {
 			if (memcmp(n->mac, null_mac, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
-				memcpy (mac_addr, &(n->mac), ETH_ALEN); /* found it */
+				mac_addr = n->mac;		/* found it */
 		} else if (!is_ip6addr_in_my_net(&ip_dst)) {
 			struct router *gw;
 			gw = ipv6_get_default_router(&ip6h->src);
-- 
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