CVE-2024-26885

bpf: Fix DEVMAP_HASH overflow check on 32-bit arches

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 17, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

bpf: Fix DEVMAP_HASH overflow check on 32-bit arches

The devmap code allocates a number hash buckets equal to the next power of two of the max_entries value provided when creating the map. When rounding up to the next power of two, the 32-bit variable storing the number of buckets can overflow, and the code checks for overflow by checking if the truncated 32-bit value is equal to 0. However, on 32-bit arches the rounding up itself can overflow mid-way through, because it ends up doing a left-shift of 32 bits on an unsigned long value. If the size of an unsigned long is four bytes, this is undefined behaviour, so there is no guarantee that we'll end up with a nice and tidy 0-value at the end.

Syzbot managed to turn this into a crash on arm32 by creating a DEVMAP_HASH with max_entries > 0x80000000 and then trying to update it. Fix this by moving the overflow check to before the rounding up operation.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before 1f5e352b9088211fa5eb4e1639cd365f4f7d2f65Affected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before 4b81a9f92b3676cb74b907a7a209b3d15bd9a7f9Affected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before c826502bed93970f2fd488918a7b8d5f1d30e2e3Affected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before edf7990baa48de5097daa9ac02e06cb4c798a737Affected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before 250051acc21f9d4c5c595e4fcb55986ea08c4691Affected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before 22079b3a423382335f47d9ed32114e6c9fe88d7cAffected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before e89386f62ce9a9ab9a94835a9890883c23d9d52cAffected
  • 6f9d451ab1a33728adb72d7ff66a7b374d665176 to before 281d464a34f540de166cee74b723e97ac2515ec3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.4Affected
  • before 5.4Not affected
  • 5.4.285 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.227 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.153 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.83 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.23 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.11 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8.2 through 6.8.*Not affected
  • 6.9 and laterNot affected

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