Bug #1816
closedp->cc can go negative in libpcap
Description
In pcap_read_bpf(), ep is set based on the return value of read(), but read() from a BPF device doesn't necessarily return a value that's a multiple of the alignment value for BPF_WORDALIGN(). However, whenever we increment bp, we round up the increment value by a value rounded up by BPF_WORDALIGN(), so we could increment bp past ep after processing the last packet in the buffer.
This can be reproduced by running a program that opens a capture device with a timeout of 0, in a loop, calls pcap_dispatch() with a cnt argument of 1, and reports when it returns a value of 0. The timeout of 0 means that the read() that libpcap does shouldn't return until there's packet data, so a timeout won't cause pcap_dispatch() to return 0. Do a large amount of network data transfer, to fill up the BPF bucket; notice that, on occasion, the program will report that pcap_dispatch() returns 0.
See the attached patch, which also fixes a case where, if you break out of the packet read loop due to a pcap_breakloop() call, p->bp isn't advanced and p->cc isn't reduced.
Files
Updated by tuxillo over 2 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Already fixed some 12 years ago in this commit:
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/b26d8d2aa849c8021cdfa872901e82fb469460ef
We have a version that has the fix.