CVE-2024-50128CWE-125

CVE-2024-50128

High · published November 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: wwan: fix global oob in wwan_rtnl_policy

The variable wwan_rtnl_link_ops assign a *bigger* maxtype which leads to

a global out-of-bounds read when parsing the netlink attributes. Exactly

same bug cause as the oob fixed in commit b33fb5b801c6 ("net: qualcomm:

rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy").

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:388 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x19d7/0x29a0 lib/nlattr.c:603

Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff8b09cb60 by task syz.1.66276/323862

CPU: 0 PID: 323862 Comm: syz.1.66276 Not tainted 6.1.70 #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x177/0x231 lib/dump_stack.c:106

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]

print_report+0x14f/0x750 mm/kasan/report.c:395

kasan_report+0x139/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:495

validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:388 [inline]

__nla_validate_parse+0x19d7/0x29a0 lib/nlattr.c:603

__nla_parse+0x3c/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:700

nla_parse_nested_deprecated include/net/netlink.h:1269 [inline]

__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3514 [inline]

rtnl_newlink+0x7bc/0x1fd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3623

rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x794/0xef0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6122

netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2508

netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1326 [inline]

netlink_unicast+0x74b/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1352

netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xb90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]

____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2499

___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2553

__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]

__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]

__se_sys_sendmsg+0x19e/0x270 net/socket.c:2589

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7f67b19a24ad

RSP: 002b:00007f67b17febb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f67b1b45f80 RCX: 00007f67b19a24ad

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020005e40 RDI: 0000000000000004

RBP: 00007f67b1a1e01d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000

R13: 00007ffd2513764f R14: 00007ffd251376e0 R15: 00007f67b17fed40

</TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the variable:

wwan_rtnl_policy+0x20/0x40

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:

page:ffffea00002c2700 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xb09c

flags: 0xfff00000001000(reserved|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)

raw: 00fff00000001000 ffffea00002c2708 ffffea00002c2708 0000000000000000

raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000

page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

page_owner info is not present (never set?)

Memory state around the buggy address:

ffffffff8b09ca00: 05 f9 f9 f9 05 f9 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9

ffffffff8b09ca80: 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 03 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9

>ffffffff8b09cb00: 00 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9

^

ffffffff8b09cb80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

==================================================================

According to the comment of `nla_parse_nested_deprecated`, use correct size

`IFLA_WWAN_MAX` here to fix this issue.

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
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2024-11-05T23:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.14, < 5.15.1705.15.170
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1156.1.115
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.596.6.59
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.11.66.11.6
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
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References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 NOV 17:10Z
    net: wwan: fix global oob in wwan_rtnl_policy
    cvelistv5