smack: tcp: ipv4, fix incorrect labeling (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-47659
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.78 % · percentile 56 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smack: tcp: ipv4, fix incorrect labeling Currently, Smack mirrors the label of incoming tcp/ipv4 connections: when a label 'foo' connects to a label 'bar' with tcp/ipv4, 'foo' always gets 'foo' in returned ipv4 packets. So, 1) returned packets are incorrectly labeled ('foo' instead of 'bar') 2) 'bar' can write to 'foo' without being authorized to write. Here is a scenario how to see this: * Take two machines, let's call them C and S, with active Smack in the default state (no settings, no rules, no labeled hosts, only builtin labels) * At S, add Smack rule 'foo bar w' (labels 'foo' and 'bar' are instantiated at S at this moment) * At S, at label 'bar', launch a program that listens for incoming tcp/ipv4 connections * From C, at label 'foo', connect to the listener at S. (label 'foo' is instantiated at C at this moment) Connection succeedes and works. * Send some data in both directions. * Collect network traffic of this connection. All packets in both directions are labeled with the CIPSO of the label 'foo'. Hence, label 'bar' writes to 'foo' without being authorized, and even without ever being known at C. If anybody cares: exactly the same happens with DCCP. This behavior 1st manifested in release 2.6.29.4 (see Fixes below) and it looks unintentional. At least, no explanation was provided. I changed returned packes label into the 'bar', to bring it into line with the Smack documentation claims.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < d3f56c653c65f170b172d3c23120bc64ada645d8 ; affected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < 5b4b304f196c070342e32a4752e1fa2e22fc0671 ; affected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < a948ec993541db4ef392b555c37a1186f4d61670 ; affected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < 0aea09e82eafa50a373fc8a4b84c1d4734751e2c ; affected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < 0776bcf9cb6de46fdd94d10118de1cf9b05f83b9 ; affected 07feee8f812f7327a46186f7604df312c8c81962 < 4be9fd15c3c88775bdf6fa37acabe6de85beebff
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.30 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.30 ; unaffected 4.19.322 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.284 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.226 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.167 ≤ 5.15.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD