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CVE-2023-52906

Disclosure Date: August 21, 2024
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Description

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

net/sched: act_mpls: Fix warning during failed attribute validation

The ‘TCA_MPLS_LABEL’ attribute is of ‘NLA_U32’ type, but has a
validation type of ‘NLA_VALIDATE_FUNCTION’. This is an invalid
combination according to the comment above ‘struct nla_policy’:


Meaning of `validate’ field, use via NLA_POLICY_VALIDATE_FN:
NLA_BINARY Validation function called for the attribute.
All other Unused – but note that it’s a union

This can trigger the warning [1] in nla_get_range_unsigned() when
validation of the attribute fails. Despite being of ‘NLA_U32’ type, the
associated ‘min’/‘max’ fields in the policy are negative as they are
aliased by the ‘validate’ field.

Fix by changing the attribute type to ‘NLA_BINARY’ which is consistent
with the above comment and all other users of NLA_POLICY_VALIDATE_FN().
As a result, move the length validation to the validation function.

No regressions in MPLS tests:

# ./tdc.py -f tc-tests/actions/mpls.json
[…]
# echo $?
0

[1]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 17743 at lib/nlattr.c:118
nla_get_range_unsigned+0x1d8/0x1e0 lib/nlattr.c:117
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 17743 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc8 #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.13.0-48-gd9c812dda519-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:nla_get_range_unsigned+0x1d8/0x1e0 lib/nlattr.c:117
[…]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__netlink_policy_dump_write_attr+0x23d/0x990 net/netlink/policy.c:310
netlink_policy_dump_write_attr+0x22/0x30 net/netlink/policy.c:411
netlink_ack_tlv_fill net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2454 [inline]
netlink_ack+0x546/0x760 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2506
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1b7/0x240 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2546
rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6109
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x5e9/0x6b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x739/0x860 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x38f/0x500 net/socket.c:2482
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2536 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x197/0x230 net/socket.c:2565
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2574 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2572 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x50 net/socket.c:2572
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 6.2
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