tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47162
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.74 % · percentile 55 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs It's not a good idea to append the frag skb to a skb's frag_list if the frag_list already has skbs from elsewhere, such as this skb was created by pskb_copy() where the frag_list was cloned (all the skbs in it were skb_get'ed) and shared by multiple skbs. However, the new appended frag skb should have been only seen by the current skb. Otherwise, it will cause use after free crashes as this appended frag skb are seen by multiple skbs but it only got skb_get called once. The same thing happens with a skb updated by pskb_may_pull() with a skb_cloned skb. Li Shuang has reported quite a few crashes caused by this when doing testing over macvlan devices: [] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:1970! [] Call Trace: [] skb_clone+0x4d/0xb0 [] macvlan_broadcast+0xd8/0x160 [macvlan] [] macvlan_process_broadcast+0x148/0x150 [macvlan] [] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 [] worker_thread+0x30/0x390 [] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102! [] Call Trace: [] __check_heap_object+0xd3/0x100 [] __check_object_size+0xff/0x16b [] simple_copy_to_iter+0x1c/0x30 [] __skb_datagram_iter+0x7d/0x310 [] __skb_datagram_iter+0x2a5/0x310 [] skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x3b/0x90 [] tipc_recvmsg+0x14a/0x3a0 [tipc] [] ____sys_recvmsg+0x91/0x150 [] ___sys_recvmsg+0x7b/0xc0 [] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:305! [] Call Trace: [] <IRQ> [] kmem_cache_free+0x3ff/0x400 [] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x12c/0xc40 [] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12e/0x270 [] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x3d/0xb0 [] ? get_rx_page_info+0x8e/0xa0 [be2net] [] be_poll+0x6ef/0xd00 [be2net] [] ? irq_exit+0x4f/0x100 [] net_rx_action+0x149/0x3b0 ... This patch is to fix it by linearizing the head skb if it has frag_list set in tipc_buf_append(). Note that we choose to do this before calling skb_unshare(), as __skb_linearize() will avoid skb_copy(). Also, we can not just drop the frag_list either as the early time.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < b2c8d28c34b3070407cb1741f9ba3f15d0284b8b ; affected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < 5489f30bb78ff0dafb4229a69632afc2ba20765c ; affected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < 436d650d374329a591c30339a91fa5078052ed1e ; affected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < 4b1761898861117c97066aea6c58f68a7787f0bf ; affected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < 64d17ec9f1ded042c4b188d15734f33486ed9966 ; affected 45c8b7b175ceb2d542e0fe15247377bf3bce29ec < 6da24cfc83ba4f97ea44fc7ae9999a006101755c
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.3 ; unaffected 0 < 4.3 ; unaffected 4.4.271 ≤ 4.4.* ; unaffected 4.9.271 ≤ 4.9.* ; unaffected 4.14.235 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.193 ≤ 4.19.*

Sources

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