CVE-2024-49949

net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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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---

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 960b360ca7463921c1a6b72e7066a706d6406223 to before d70ca7598943572d5e384227bd268acb5109bf72Affected
  • fb2dbc124a7f800cd0e4f901a1bbb769a017104c to before 1598d70ad9c7d0a4d9d54b82094e9f45908fda6dAffected
  • 8e6bae950da9dc2d2c6c18b1c6b206dc00dc8772 to before ba26060a29d3ca1bfc737aa79f7125128f35147cAffected
  • 0f810d06b507aa40fef8d1ac0a88e6d0590dbfc3 to before 939c88cbdc668dadd8cfa7a35d9066331239041cAffected
  • cf9acc90c80ecbee00334aa85d92f4e74014bcff to before d6114993e0a89fde84a60a60a8329a571580b174Affected
  • cf9acc90c80ecbee00334aa85d92f4e74014bcff to before 25ab0b87dbd89cecef8a9c60a02bb97832e471d1Affected
  • cf9acc90c80ecbee00334aa85d92f4e74014bcff to before f959cce8a2a04ce776aa8b78e83ce339e0d7fbacAffected
  • cf9acc90c80ecbee00334aa85d92f4e74014bcff to before 81fd007dcd47c34471766249853e4d4bce8eea4bAffected
  • cf9acc90c80ecbee00334aa85d92f4e74014bcff to before c20029db28399ecc50e556964eaba75c43b1e2f1Affected
  • 2128303bff700c857739a0af8cc39c1a41840650Affected
  • 4.19.218 to before 4.19.323Affected
  • 5.4.162 to before 5.4.285Affected
  • 5.10.82 to before 5.10.227Affected
  • 5.15.5 to before 5.15.168Affected
  • 4.14.256 to before 4.15Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.16Affected
  • before 5.16Not affected
  • 4.19.323 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.285 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.227 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.168 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.113 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.55 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.14 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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