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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 16, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 23, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets

syzbot reported a kernel infoleak [1] of 4 bytes.

After analysis, it turned out r->idiag_expires is not initialized
if inet_sctp_diag_fill() calls inet_diag_msg_common_fill()

Make sure to clear idiag_timer/idiag_retrans/idiag_expires
and let inet_diag_msg_sctpasoc_fill() fill them again if needed.

[1]

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in copyout lib/iov_iter.c:154 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter+0x6ef/0x25a0 lib/iov_iter.c:668
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline]
copyout lib/iov_iter.c:154 [inline]
_copy_to_iter+0x6ef/0x25a0 lib/iov_iter.c:668
copy_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:162 [inline]
simple_copy_to_iter+0xf3/0x140 net/core/datagram.c:519
__skb_datagram_iter+0x2d5/0x11b0 net/core/datagram.c:425
skb_copy_datagram_iter+0xdc/0x270 net/core/datagram.c:533
skb_copy_datagram_msg include/linux/skbuff.h:3696 [inline]
netlink_recvmsg+0x669/0x1c80 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1977
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:948 [inline]
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:966 [inline]
__sys_recvfrom+0x795/0xa10 net/socket.c:2097
__do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2115 [inline]
__se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2111 [inline]
__x64_sys_recvfrom+0x19d/0x210 net/socket.c:2111
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:737 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3247 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4975
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1158 [inline]
netlink_dump+0x3e5/0x16c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2248
__netlink_dump_start+0xcf8/0xe90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2373
netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:254 [inline]
inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x2e7/0x400 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1341
sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x24a/0x620
netlink_rcv_skb+0x40c/0x7e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2494
sock_diag_rcv+0x63/0x80 net/core/sock_diag.c:277
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1317 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x1093/0x1360 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1343
netlink_sendmsg+0x14d9/0x1720 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:705 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_write_iter+0x594/0x690 net/socket.c:1061
do_iter_readv_writev+0xa7f/0xc70
do_iter_write+0x52c/0x1500 fs/read_write.c:851
vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:924 [inline]
do_writev+0x645/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:967
__do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1040 [inline]
__se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1037 [inline]
__x64_sys_writev+0xe5/0x120 fs/read_write.c:1037
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Bytes 68-71 of 2508 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 2508 starts at ffff888114f9b000
Data copied to user address 00007f7fe09ff2e0

CPU: 1 PID: 3478 Comm: syz-executor306 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 16, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 16, 2024
Last updated Jul 23, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48855

GHSA ID

GHSA-74mq-wr7w-wwvw

Source code

No known source code

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