CVE-2025-71304

smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
May 27, 2026
Reserved
May 8, 2026

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Description

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

smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values

Writing to /smack/doi a value that has ever been written there in the past disables networking for non-ambient labels. E.g.

# cat /smack/doi 3 # netlabelctl -p cipso list Configured CIPSO mappings (1) DOI value : 3 mapping type : PASS_THROUGH # netlabelctl -p map list Configured NetLabel domain mappings (3) domain: "_" (IPv4) protocol: UNLABELED domain: DEFAULT (IPv4) protocol: CIPSO, DOI = 3 domain: DEFAULT (IPv6) protocol: UNLABELED

# cat /smack/ambient _ # cat /proc/$$/attr/smack/current _ # ping -c1 10.1.95.12 64 bytes from 10.1.95.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.964 ms # echo foo >/proc/$$/attr/smack/current # ping -c1 10.1.95.12 64 bytes from 10.1.95.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.956 ms unknown option 86

# echo 4 >/smack/doi # echo 3 >/smack/doi !> [ 214.050395] smk_cipso_doi:691 cipso add rc = -17 # echo 3 >/smack/doi !> [ 249.402261] smk_cipso_doi:678 remove rc = -2 !> [ 249.402261] smk_cipso_doi:691 cipso add rc = -17

# ping -c1 10.1.95.12 !!> ping: 10.1.95.12: Address family for hostname not supported

# echo _ >/proc/$$/attr/smack/current # ping -c1 10.1.95.12 64 bytes from 10.1.95.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.617 ms

This happens because Smack keeps decommissioned DOIs, fails to re-add them, and consequently refuses to add the “default” domain map:

# netlabelctl -p cipso list Configured CIPSO mappings (2) DOI value : 3 mapping type : PASS_THROUGH DOI value : 4 mapping type : PASS_THROUGH # netlabelctl -p map list Configured NetLabel domain mappings (2) domain: "_" (IPv4) protocol: UNLABELED !> (no ipv4 map for default domain here) domain: DEFAULT (IPv6) protocol: UNLABELED

Fix by clearing decommissioned DOI definitions and serializing concurrent DOI updates with a new lock.

Also: - allow /smack/doi to live unconfigured, since adding a map (netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_map_add) may fail. CIPSO_V4_DOI_UNKNOWN(0) indicates the unconfigured DOI - add new DOI before removing the old default map, so the old map remains if the add fails

(2008-02-04, Casey Schaufler)

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before eb718a3c8181ada679340db34cd61bce48e44749Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 6ec091c5c7eeabd249a7c46813cad1e9f555f859Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 199452f22d2f74b897fe826f81ec402b0a8461a0Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 1c7ee23dfcd18d80770d8f90f2ab5bb1b2bfd8a3Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before f8071500177f38cff38892bd85ac631cc6e010b2Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 5a247a84de0ba44edbbd6be851c8a6b2aa60ff85Affected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 8beebb8ad9a003f978e53b06237986588223e15eAffected
  • e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99 to before 33d589ed60ae433b483761987b85e0d24e54584eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.25Affected
  • before 2.6.25Not affected
  • 5.10.252 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.202 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.165 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.128 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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