CVE-2024-50253

bpf: Check the validity of nr_words in bpf_iter_bits_new()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 9, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

bpf: Check the validity of nr_words in bpf_iter_bits_new()

Check the validity of nr_words in bpf_iter_bits_new(). Without this check, when multiplication overflow occurs for nr_bits (e.g., when nr_words = 0x0400-0001, nr_bits becomes 64), stack corruption may occur due to bpf_probe_read_kernel_common(..., nr_bytes = 0x2000-0008).

Fix it by limiting the maximum value of nr_words to 511. The value is derived from the current implementation of BPF memory allocator. To ensure compatibility if the BPF memory allocator's size limitation changes in the future, use the helper bpf_mem_alloc_check_size() to check whether nr_bytes is too larger. And return -E2BIG instead of -ENOMEM for oversized nr_bytes.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4665415975b0827e9646cab91c61d02a6b364d59 to before c9539e09c67880ecd88b51188c346a2cc078b06cAffected
  • 4665415975b0827e9646cab91c61d02a6b364d59 to before 393397fbdcad7396639d7077c33f86169184ba99Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.11.7 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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