CVE-2021-46999CWE-416

CVE-2021-46999

Critical · published February 28, 2024

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a

There's a panic that occurs in a few of envs, the call trace is as below:

[] general protection fault, ... 0x29acd70f1000a: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI

[] RIP: 0010:sctp_ulpevent_notify_peer_addr_change+0x4b/0x1fa [sctp]

[] sctp_assoc_control_transport+0x1b9/0x210 [sctp]

[] sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike.isra.16+0x15c/0x220 [sctp]

[] sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.21+0x1231/0x1a10 [sctp]

[] sctp_do_sm+0xc3/0x2a0 [sctp]

[] sctp_generate_timeout_event+0x81/0xf0 [sctp]

This is caused by a transport use-after-free issue. When processing a

duplicate COOKIE-ECHO chunk in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a(), both COOKIE-ACK

and SHUTDOWN chunks are allocated with the transort from the new asoc.

However, later in the sideeffect machine, the old asoc is used to send

them out and old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to is set to the transport

that SHUTDOWN chunk attached to in sctp_cmd_setup_t2(), which actually

belongs to the new asoc. After the new_asoc is freed and the old asoc

T2 timeout, the old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to that is already freed

would be accessed in sctp_sf_t2_timer_expire().

Thanks Alexander and Jere for helping dig into this issue.

To fix it, this patch is to do the asoc update first, then allocate

the COOKIE-ACK and SHUTDOWN chunks with the 'updated' old asoc. This

would make more sense, as a chunk from an asoc shouldn't be sent out

with another asoc. We had fixed quite a few issues caused by this.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00743 · 54.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2024-02-28T14:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.19.123, < 4.19.1914.19.191
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.4.41, < 5.4.1205.4.120
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.7, < 5.10.385.10.38
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.11.225.11.22
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.12, < 5.12.55.12.5
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 FEB 08:13Z
    sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a
    cvelistv5