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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 8, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

xsk: fix OOB map writes when deleting elements

Jordy says:

"
In the xsk_map_delete_elem function an unsigned integer
(map->max_entries) is compared with a user-controlled signed integer
(k). Due to implicit type conversion, a large unsigned value for
map->max_entries can bypass the intended bounds check:

if (k >= map->max_entries)
	return -EINVAL;

This allows k to hold a negative value (between -2147483648 and -2),
which is then used as an array index in m->xsk_map[k], which results
in an out-of-bounds access.

spin_lock_bh(&m->lock);
map_entry = &m->xsk_map[k]; // Out-of-bounds map_entry
old_xs = unrcu_pointer(xchg(map_entry, NULL));  // Oob write
if (old_xs)
	xsk_map_sock_delete(old_xs, map_entry);
spin_unlock_bh(&m->lock);

The xchg operation can then be used to cause an out-of-bounds write.
Moreover, the invalid map_entry passed to xsk_map_sock_delete can lead
to further memory corruption.
"

It indeed results in following splat:

[76612.897343] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc8fc2e461108
[76612.904330] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[76612.909639] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[76612.914855] PGD 0 P4D 0
[76612.917431] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[76612.921859] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 10318 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1+ #470
[76612.929189] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 03/19/2019
[76612.939781] RIP: 0010:xsk_map_delete_elem+0x2d/0x60
[76612.944738] Code: 00 00 41 54 55 53 48 63 2e 3b 6f 24 73 38 4c 8d a7 f8 00 00 00 48 89 fb 4c 89 e7 e8 2d bf 05 00 48 8d b4 eb 00 01 00 00 31 ff <48> 87 3e 48 85 ff 74 05 e8 16 ff ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 3e bc 05 00 31
[76612.963774] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002e407df8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[76612.969079] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9002e461000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[76612.976323] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffc8fc2e461108 RDI: 0000000000000000
[76612.983569] RBP: ffffffff80000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000007
[76612.990812] R10: ffffc9002e407e18 R11: ffff888108a38858 R12: ffffc9002e4610f8
[76612.998060] R13: ffff888108a38858 R14: 00007ffd1ae0ac78 R15: ffffc9002e4610c0
[76613.005303] FS: 00007f80b6f59740(0000) GS:ffff8897e0ec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[76613.013517] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[76613.019349] CR2: ffffc8fc2e461108 CR3: 000000011e3ef001 CR4: 00000000007726f0
[76613.026595] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[76613.033841] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[76613.041086] PKRU: 55555554
[76613.043842] Call Trace:
[76613.046331]
[76613.048468] ? __die+0x20/0x60
[76613.051581] ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x450
[76613.055747] ? search_extable+0x22/0x30
[76613.059649] ? search_bpf_extables+0x5f/0x80
[76613.063988] ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x140
[76613.067975] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[76613.072229] ? xsk_map_delete_elem+0x2d/0x60
[76613.076573] ? xsk_map_delete_elem+0x23/0x60
[76613.080914] __sys_bpf+0x19b7/0x23c0
[76613.084555] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x20
[76613.088194] do_syscall_64+0x37/0xb0
[76613.091832] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
[76613.096962] RIP: 0033:0x7f80b6d1e88d
[76613.100592] Code: 5b 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 b5 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[76613.119631] RSP: 002b:00007ffd1ae0ac68 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
[76613.131330] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f80b6d1e88d
[76613.142632] RDX: 0000000000000098 RSI: 00007ffd1ae0ad20 RDI: 0000000000000003
[76613.153967] RBP: 00007ffd1ae0adc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[76613.166030] R10: 00007f80b6f77040 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffd1ae0aed8
[76613.177130] R13: 000055ddf42ce1e9 R14: 000055ddf42d0d98 R15: 00
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 8, 2025

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
High
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:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56614

GHSA ID

GHSA-v9jf-g2rr-85c3

Source code

No known source code

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