CVE-2024-26608
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v2025.03.14There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix global oob in ksmbd_nl_policy
Similar to a reported issue (check the commit b33fb5b801c6 ("net:
qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy"), my local fuzzer finds
another global out-of-bounds read for policy ksmbd_nl_policy. See bug
trace below:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff8f24b100 by task syz-executor.1/62810
CPU: 0 PID: 62810 Comm: syz-executor.1 Tainted: G N 6.1.0 #3
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+0x8b/0xb3 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
print_report+0x172/0x475 mm/kasan/report.c:395
kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline]
__nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600
__nla_parse+0x3e/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:697
__nlmsg_parse include/net/netlink.h:748 [inline]
genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.constprop.0+0x1b0/0x290 net/netlink/genetlink.c:565
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xda/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:734
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x441/0x780 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
netlink_rcv_skb+0x14f/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x54e/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x930/0xe50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0x154/0x190 net/socket.c:734
____sys_sendmsg+0x6df/0x840 net/socket.c:2482
___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2536
__sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2565
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fdd66a8f359
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 19 00 00 90 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 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fdd65e00168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdd66bbcf80 RCX: 00007fdd66a8f359
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000500 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fdd66ada493 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffc84b81aff R14: 00007fdd65e00300 R15: 0000000000022000
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
ksmbd_nl_policy+0x100/0xa80
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:0000000034f47940 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1ccc4b
flags: 0x200000000001000(reserved|node=0|zone=2)
raw: 0200000000001000 ffffea00073312c8 ffffea00073312c8 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffffff8f24b000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffffffff8f24b080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffff8f24b100: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 07 f9
^
ffffffff8f24b180: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 05
ffffffff8f24b200: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 03 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 04 f9
==================================================================
To fix it, add a placeholder named __KSMBD_EVENT_MAX and let
KSMBD_EVENT_MAX to be its original value - 1 according to what other
netlink families do. Also change two sites that refer the
KSMBD_EVENT_MAX to correct value.
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 11, 2024, Modified: November 8, 2024