CVE-2021-47129CWE-273

CVE-2021-47129

High · published March 16, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

netfilter: nft_ct: skip expectations for confirmed conntrack

nft_ct_expect_obj_eval() calls nf_ct_ext_add() for a confirmed

conntrack entry. However, nf_ct_ext_add() can only be called for

!nf_ct_is_confirmed().

[ 1825.349056] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1279 at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c:48 nf_ct_xt_add+0x18e/0x1a0 [nf_conntrack]

[ 1825.351391] RIP: 0010:nf_ct_ext_add+0x18e/0x1a0 [nf_conntrack]

[ 1825.351493] Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 41 bc 0a 00 00 00 e9 15 ff ff ff ba 09 00 00 00 31 f6 4c 89 ff e8 69 6c 3d e9 eb 96 45 31 ed eb cd <0f> 0b e9 b1 fe ff ff e8 86 79 14 e9 eb bf 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00

[ 1825.351721] RSP: 0018:ffffc90002e1f1e8 EFLAGS: 00010202

[ 1825.351790] RAX: 000000000000000e RBX: ffff88814f5783c0 RCX: ffffffffc0e4f887

[ 1825.351881] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88814f578440

[ 1825.351971] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88814f578447

[ 1825.352060] R10: ffffed1029eaf088 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88814f578440

[ 1825.352150] R13: ffff8882053f3a00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000a20

[ 1825.352240] FS: 00007f992261c900(0000) GS:ffff889faec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 1825.352343] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 1825.352417] CR2: 000056070a4d1158 CR3: 000000015efe0000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0

[ 1825.352508] Call Trace:

[ 1825.352544] nf_ct_helper_ext_add+0x10/0x60 [nf_conntrack]

[ 1825.352641] nft_ct_expect_obj_eval+0x1b8/0x1e0 [nft_ct]

[ 1825.352716] nft_do_chain+0x232/0x850 [nf_tables]

Add the ct helper extension only for unconfirmed conntrack. Skip rule

evaluation if the ct helper extension does not exist. Thus, you can

only create expectations from the first packet.

It should be possible to remove this limitation by adding a new action

to attach a generic ct helper to the first packet. Then, use this ct

helper extension from follow up packets to create the ct expectation.

While at it, add a missing check to skip the template conntrack too

and remove check for IPCT_UNTRACK which is implicit to !ct.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00446 · 37.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-273 · Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
Published
2024-03-16T01:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.3, < 5.4.1255.4.125
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.435.10.43
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.12.105.12.10
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 MAR 20:14Z
    netfilter: nft_ct: skip expectations for confirmed conntrack
    cvelistv5