netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-50038
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.23 % · percentile 14 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

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.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
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 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 < 85ff9a0f793ca52c527e75cd40a69c948627ebde ; affected 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 < 8f482bb7e27b37f1f734bb9a8eeb28b23d59d189 ; affected 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 < 997f67d813ce0cf5eb3cdb8f124da68141e91b6c ; affected 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 < 4cdc55ec6222bb195995cc58f7cb46e4d8907056 ; affected 0269ea4937343536ec7e85649932bc8c9686ea78 < 0bfcb7b71e735560077a42847f69597ec7dcc326
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.30 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.30 ; unaffected 5.15.168 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.113 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.57 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.11.4 ≤ 6.11.*

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