Out-of-bounds Read Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.31.1.el9_4
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- published 4 Nov 2024
- disclosed 14 Aug 2024
Introduced: 14 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-39487 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade AlmaLinux:9 kernel-tools to version 0:5.14.0-427.31.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:5363.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by AlmaLinux.
See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: Fix out-of-bounds read in bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set()
In function bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set(), if newval->string is an empty string, newval->string+1 will point to the byte after the string, causing an out-of-bound read.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strlen+0x7d/0xa0 lib/string.c:418 Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881119c4781 by task syz-executor665/8107 CPU: 1 PID: 8107 Comm: syz-executor665 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline] print_report+0xc1/0x5e0 mm/kasan/report.c:475 kasan_report+0xbe/0xf0 mm/kasan/report.c:588 strlen+0x7d/0xa0 lib/string.c:418 __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:210 [inline] in4_pton+0xa3/0x3f0 net/core/utils.c:130 bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set+0xc2/0x910 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:1201 __bond_opt_set+0x2a4/0x1030 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:767 __bond_opt_set_notify+0x48/0x150 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:792 bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0xda/0x160 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:817 bonding_sysfs_store_option+0xa1/0x120 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c:156 dev_attr_store+0x54/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2366 sysfs_kf_write+0x114/0x170 fs/sysfs/file.c:136 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x337/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:334 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2020 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline] vfs_write+0x96a/0xd80 fs/read_write.c:584 ksys_write+0x122/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b ---[ end trace ]---
Fix it by adding a check of string length before using it.
References
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-5101.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-5102.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-5363.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39487
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5101
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5102
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5363
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a8a4fd082c439e19fede027e80c79bc4c84bb8e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b21346b399fd1336fe59233a17eb5ce73041ee1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/707c85ba3527ad6aa25552033576b0f1ff835d7b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f835e48bd4c75fdf6a9cff3f0b806a7abde78da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75e33eae8667084bd4a63e67657c6a5a0f8d1e8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfd14e5915c2669f292a31d028e75dcd82f1e7e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8eb8ab9a44ff0e73492d0a12a643c449f641a9f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e271ff53807e8f2c628758290f0e499dbe51cb3d