CVE-2024-50035

ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access

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:

ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access

syzbot reported an issue in ppp_async_encode() [1]

In this case, pppoe_sendmsg() is called with a zero size. Then ppp_async_encode() is called with an empty skb.

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ppp_async_encode drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:545 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ppp_async_push+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:675 ppp_async_encode drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:545 [inline] ppp_async_push+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:675 ppp_async_send+0x130/0x1b0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:634 ppp_channel_bridge_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2280 [inline] ppp_input+0x1f1/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2304 pppoe_rcv_core+0x1d3/0x720 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379 sk_backlog_rcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1113 __release_sock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3072 release_sock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3626 pppoe_sendmsg+0x2b8/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:903 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 ____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 __sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4092 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4135 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4187 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:587 __alloc_skb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:678 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline] sock_wmalloc+0xfe/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:2732 pppoe_sendmsg+0x3a7/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:867 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 ____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 __sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5411 Comm: syz.1.14 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller-00165-g360c1f1f24c6 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 4151ec65abd755133ebec687218fadd2d2631167Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 8dfe93901b410ae41264087427f3b9f389388f83Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 30d91a478d58cbae3dbaa8224d17d0d839f0d71bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before fadf8fdb3110d3138e05c3765f645535434f8d76Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ce249a4c68d0ce27a8c5d853338d502e2711a314Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 8fe992ff3df493d1949922ca234419f3ede08dffAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before c007a14797240607038bd3464501109f408940e2Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 40dddd4b8bd08a69471efd96107a4e1c73fabefcAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not 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
  • 6.6.57 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.4 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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