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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 12, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO

After commit 7c6d2ecbda83 ("net: be more gentle about silly gso
requests coming from user") virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() had sanity check
to detect malicious attempts from user space to cook a bad GSO packet.

Then commit cf9acc90c80ec ("net: virtio_net_hdr_to_skb: count
transport header in UFO") while fixing one issue, allowed user space
to cook a GSO packet with the following characteristic :

IPv4 SKB_GSO_UDP, gso_size=3, skb->len = 28.

When this packet arrives in qdisc_pkt_len_init(), we end up
with hdr_len = 28 (IPv4 header + UDP header), matching skb->len

Then the following sets gso_segs to 0 :

gso_segs = DIV_ROUND_UP(skb->len - hdr_len,
shinfo->gso_size);

Then later we set qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len to back to zero :/

qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len += (gso_segs - 1) * hdr_len;

This leads to the following crash in fq_codel [1]

qdisc_pkt_len_init() is best effort, we only want an estimation
of the bytes sent on the wire, not crashing the kernel.

This patch is fixing this particular issue, a following one
adds more sanity checks for another potential bug.

[1]
[ 70.724101] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 70.724561] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 70.724561] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 70.724561] PGD 10ac61067 P4D 10ac61067 PUD 107ee2067 PMD 0
[ 70.724561] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 70.724561] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 2163 Comm: b358537762 Not tainted 6.11.0-virtme #991
[ 70.724561] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 70.724561] RIP: 0010:fq_codel_enqueue (net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:120 net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:168 net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:230) sch_fq_codel
[ 70.724561] Code: 24 08 49 c1 e1 06 44 89 7c 24 18 45 31 ed 45 31 c0 31 ff 89 44 24 14 4c 03 8b 90 01 00 00 eb 04 39 ca 73 37 4d 8b 39 83 c7 01 <49> 8b 17 49 89 11 41 8b 57 28 45 8b 5f 34 49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 49
All code

0: 24 08 and $0x8,%al
2: 49 c1 e1 06 shl $0x6,%r9
6: 44 89 7c 24 18 mov %r15d,0x18(%rsp)
b: 45 31 ed xor %r13d,%r13d
e: 45 31 c0 xor %r8d,%r8d
11: 31 ff xor %edi,%edi
13: 89 44 24 14 mov %eax,0x14(%rsp)
17: 4c 03 8b 90 01 00 00 add 0x190(%rbx),%r9
1e: eb 04 jmp 0x24
20: 39 ca cmp %ecx,%edx
22: 73 37 jae 0x5b
24: 4d 8b 39 mov (%r9),%r15
27: 83 c7 01 add $0x1,%edi
2a:* 49 8b 17 mov (%r15),%rdx <-- trapping instruction
2d: 49 89 11 mov %rdx,(%r9)
30: 41 8b 57 28 mov 0x28(%r15),%edx
34: 45 8b 5f 34 mov 0x34(%r15),%r11d
38: 49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 movq $0x0,(%r15)
3f: 49 rex.WB

Code starting with the faulting instruction

0: 49 8b 17 mov (%r15),%rdx
3: 49 89 11 mov %rdx,(%r9)
6: 41 8b 57 28 mov 0x28(%r15),%edx
a: 45 8b 5f 34 mov 0x34(%r15),%r11d
e: 49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 movq $0x0,(%r15)
15: 49 rex.WB
[ 70.724561] RSP: 0018:ffff95ae85e6fb90 EFLAGS: 00000202
[ 70.724561] RAX: 0000000002000000 RBX: ffff95ae841de000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 70.724561] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001
[ 70.724561] RBP: ffff95ae85e6fbf8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff95b710a30000
[ 70.724561] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: bdf289445ce31881 R12: ffff95ae85e6fc58
[ 70.724561] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000040 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 70.724561] FS: 000000002c5c1380(0000) GS:ffff95bd7fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 70.724561] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 C
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Nov 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-49949

GHSA ID

GHSA-4x74-8q36-fc3h

Source code

No known source code

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