CVE-2024-42246

net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket

published August 7, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket

When using a BPF program on kernel_connect(), the call can return -EPERM. This

causes xs_tcp_setup_socket() to loop forever, filling up the syslog and causing

the kernel to potentially freeze up.

Neil suggested:

This will propagate -EPERM up into other layers which might not be ready

to handle it. It might be safer to map EPERM to an error we would be more

likely to expect from the network system - such as ECONNREFUSED or ENETDOWN.

ECONNREFUSED as error seems reasonable. For programs setting a different error

can be out of reach (see handling in 4fbac77d2d09) in particular on kernels

which do not have f10d05966196 ("bpf: Make BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY return -err

instead of allow boolean"), thus given that it is better to simply remap for

consistent behavior. UDP does handle EPERM in xs_udp_send_request().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00231 · 13.2th percentile
Published
2024-08-07T15:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 AUG 15:14Z
    net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket
    cvelistv5