CVE-2024-26638

nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Mar 18, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely

syzbot complains that msg->msg_get_inq value can be uninitialized [1]

struct msghdr got many new fields recently, we should always make sure their values is zero by default.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in tcp_recvmsg+0x686/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2571 tcp_recvmsg+0x686/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2571 inet_recvmsg+0x131/0x580 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:879 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1044 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x12b/0x1e0 net/socket.c:1066 __sock_xmit+0x236/0x5c0 drivers/block/nbd.c:538 nbd_read_reply drivers/block/nbd.c:732 [inline] recv_work+0x262/0x3100 drivers/block/nbd.c:863 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2627 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x104e/0x1e70 kernel/workqueue.c:2700 worker_thread+0xf45/0x1490 kernel/workqueue.c:2781 kthread+0x3ed/0x540 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x66/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242

Local variable msg created at: __sock_xmit+0x4c/0x5c0 drivers/block/nbd.c:513 nbd_read_reply drivers/block/nbd.c:732 [inline] recv_work+0x262/0x3100 drivers/block/nbd.c:863

CPU: 1 PID: 7465 Comm: kworker/u5:1 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7-syzkaller-00041-gf016f7547aee #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023 Workqueue: nbd5-recv recv_work

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 to before d9c54763e5cdbbd3f81868597fe8aca3c96e6387Affected
  • f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 to before 1960f2b534da1e6c65fb96f9e98bda773495f406Affected
  • f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 to before b0028f333420a65a53a63978522db680b37379ddAffected
  • f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 to before 78fbb92af27d0982634116c7a31065f24d092826Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.76 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.15 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.3 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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