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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 8, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/sched: accept TCA_STAB only for root qdisc

Most qdiscs maintain their backlog using qdisc_pkt_len(skb)
on the assumption it is invariant between the enqueue()
and dequeue() handlers.

Unfortunately syzbot can crash a host rather easily using
a TBF + SFQ combination, with an STAB on SFQ [1]

We can't support TCA_STAB on arbitrary level, this would
require to maintain per-qdisc storage.

[1]
[ 88.796496] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 88.798611] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 88.799014] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 88.799506] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 88.799829] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 88.800569] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 2053 Comm: b371744477 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-virtme #1117
[ 88.801107] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 88.801779] RIP: 0010:sfq_dequeue (net/sched/sch_sfq.c:272 net/sched/sch_sfq.c:499) sch_sfq
[ 88.802544] Code: 0f b7 50 12 48 8d 04 d5 00 00 00 00 48 89 d6 48 29 d0 48 8b 91 c0 01 00 00 48 c1 e0 03 48 01 c2 66 83 7a 1a 00 7e c0 48 8b 3a <4c> 8b 07 4c 89 02 49 89 50 08 48 c7 47 08 00 00 00 00 48 c7 07 00
All code

0: 0f b7 50 12 movzwl 0x12(%rax),%edx
4: 48 8d 04 d5 00 00 00 lea 0x0(,%rdx,8),%rax
b: 00
c: 48 89 d6 mov %rdx,%rsi
f: 48 29 d0 sub %rdx,%rax
12: 48 8b 91 c0 01 00 00 mov 0x1c0(%rcx),%rdx
19: 48 c1 e0 03 shl $0x3,%rax
1d: 48 01 c2 add %rax,%rdx
20: 66 83 7a 1a 00 cmpw $0x0,0x1a(%rdx)
25: 7e c0 jle 0xffffffffffffffe7
27: 48 8b 3a mov (%rdx),%rdi
2a:* 4c 8b 07 mov (%rdi),%r8 <-- trapping instruction
2d: 4c 89 02 mov %r8,(%rdx)
30: 49 89 50 08 mov %rdx,0x8(%r8)
34: 48 c7 47 08 00 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rdi)
3b: 00
3c: 48 rex.W
3d: c7 .byte 0xc7
3e: 07 (bad)
...

Code starting with the faulting instruction

0: 4c 8b 07 mov (%rdi),%r8
3: 4c 89 02 mov %r8,(%rdx)
6: 49 89 50 08 mov %rdx,0x8(%r8)
a: 48 c7 47 08 00 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rdi)
11: 00
12: 48 rex.W
13: c7 .byte 0xc7
14: 07 (bad)
...
[ 88.803721] RSP: 0018:ffff9a1f892b7d58 EFLAGS: 00000206
[ 88.804032] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9a1f8420c800 RCX: ffff9a1f8420c800
[ 88.804560] RDX: ffff9a1f81bc1440 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 88.805056] RBP: ffffffffc04bb0e0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000ff7f9a1f
[ 88.805473] R10: 000000000001001b R11: 0000000000009a1f R12: 0000000000000140
[ 88.806194] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff9a1f886df400 R15: ffff9a1f886df4ac
[ 88.806734] FS: 00007f445601a740(0000) GS:ffff9a2e7fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 88.807225] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 88.807672] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000050cc46000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 88.808165] Call Trace:
[ 88.808459]
[ 88.808710] ? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434)
[ 88.809261] ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:715)
[ 88.809561] ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:26 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:87 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:147 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1489 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539)
[ 88.809806] ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:623)
[ 88.810074] ? sfq_dequeue (net/sched/sch_sfq.c:272 net/sched/sch_sfq.c:499) sch_sfq
[ 88.810411] sfq_reset (net/sched/sch_sfq.c:525) sch_sfq
[ 88.810671] qdisc_reset (./include/linux/skbuff.h:2135 ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2441 ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3304 ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3310 net/sched/sch_g
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Nov 8, 2024

Severity

Moderate

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
None
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:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-50039

GHSA ID

GHSA-mfc2-q3p4-2qjv

Source code

No known source code

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