CVE-2024-50038

netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

syzbot managed to call xt_cluster match via ebtables:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c:72 xt_cluster_mt+0x196/0x780 [..] ebt_do_table+0x174b/0x2a40

Module registers to NFPROTO_UNSPEC, but it assumes ipv4/ipv6 packet processing. As this is only useful to restrict locally terminating TCP/UDP traffic, register this for ipv4 and ipv6 family only.

Pablo points out that this is a general issue, direct users of the set/getsockopt interface can call into targets/matches that were only intended for use with ip(6)tables.

Check all UNSPEC matches and targets for similar issues:

- matches and targets are fine except if they assume skb_network_header() is valid -- this is only true when called from inet layer: ip(6) stack pulls the ip/ipv6 header into linear data area. - targets that return XT_CONTINUE or other xtables verdicts must be restricted too, they are incompatbile with the ebtables traverser, e.g. EBT_CONTINUE is a completely different value than XT_CONTINUE.

Most matches/targets are changed to register for NFPROTO_IPV4/IPV6, as they are provided for use by ip(6)tables.

The MARK target is also used by arptables, so register for NFPROTO_ARP too.

While at it, bail out if connbytes fails to enable the corresponding conntrack family.

This change passes the selftests in iptables.git.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 to before 85ff9a0f793ca52c527e75cd40a69c948627ebdeAffected
  • 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 to before 8f482bb7e27b37f1f734bb9a8eeb28b23d59d189Affected
  • 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 to before 997f67d813ce0cf5eb3cdb8f124da68141e91b6cAffected
  • 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 to before 4cdc55ec6222bb195995cc58f7cb46e4d8907056Affected
  • 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 to before 0bfcb7b71e735560077a42847f69597ec7dcc326Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.30Affected
  • before 2.6.30Not 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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