Improper Input Validation Affecting kernel-debug package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.100.1.el8_6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEBUG-6650256
  • published 18 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 4 Mar 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-debug to version 0:4.18.0-372.100.1.el8_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:1877.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug package and not the kernel-debug package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

veth: ensure skb entering GRO are not cloned.

After commit d3256efd8e8b ("veth: allow enabling NAPI even without XDP"), if GRO is enabled on a veth device and TSO is disabled on the peer device, TCP skbs will go through the NAPI callback. If there is no XDP program attached, the veth code does not perform any share check, and shared/cloned skbs could enter the GRO engine.

Ignat reported a BUG triggered later-on due to the above condition:

[ 53.970529][ C1] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:3574! [ 53.981755][ C1] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 53.982634][ C1] CPU: 1 PID: 19 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5+ #25 [ 53.982634][ C1] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 53.982634][ C1] RIP: 0010:skb_shift+0x13ef/0x23b0 [ 53.982634][ C1] Code: ea 03 0f b6 04 02 48 89 fa 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 41 0c 00 00 41 80 7f 02 00 4d 8d b5 d0 00 00 00 0f 85 74 f5 ff ff <0f> 0b 4d 8d 77 20 be 04 00 00 00 4c 89 44 24 78 4c 89 f7 4c 89 8c [ 53.982634][ C1] RSP: 0018:ffff8881008f7008 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 53.982634][ C1] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881180b4c80 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 53.982634][ C1] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff8881180b4d3c RDI: ffff88810bc9cac2 [ 53.982634][ C1] RBP: ffff8881008f70b8 R08: ffff8881180b4cf4 R09: ffff8881180b4cf0 [ 53.982634][ C1] R10: ffffed1022999e5c R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000590 [ 53.982634][ C1] R13: ffff88810f940c80 R14: ffff88810f940d50 R15: ffff88810bc9cac0 [ 53.982634][ C1] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888235880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 53.982634][ C1] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 53.982634][ C1] CR2: 00007ff5f9b86680 CR3: 0000000108ce8004 CR4: 0000000000170ee0 [ 53.982634][ C1] Call Trace: [ 53.982634][ C1] <TASK> [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_sacktag_walk+0xaba/0x18e0 [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_sacktag_write_queue+0xe7b/0x3460 [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_ack+0x2666/0x54b0 [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_rcv_established+0x4d9/0x20f0 [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x551/0x810 [ 53.982634][ C1] tcp_v4_rcv+0x22ed/0x2ed0 [ 53.982634][ C1] ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x96/0xaf0 [ 53.982634][ C1] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x1e0/0x2f0 [ 53.982634][ C1] ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x211/0x440 [ 53.982634][ C1] ip_list_rcv_finish.constprop.0+0x424/0x660 [ 53.982634][ C1] ip_list_rcv+0x2c8/0x410 [ 53.982634][ C1] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x65c/0x910 [ 53.982634][ C1] netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x5f9/0xcb0 [ 53.982634][ C1] napi_complete_done+0x188/0x6e0 [ 53.982634][ C1] gro_cell_poll+0x10c/0x1d0 [ 53.982634][ C1] __napi_poll+0xa1/0x530 [ 53.982634][ C1] net_rx_action+0x567/0x1270 [ 53.982634][ C1] __do_softirq+0x28a/0x9ba [ 53.982634][ C1] run_ksoftirqd+0x32/0x60 [ 53.982634][ C1] smpboot_thread_fn+0x559/0x8c0 [ 53.982634][ C1] kthread+0x3b9/0x490 [ 53.982634][ C1] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 53.982634][ C1] </TASK>

Address the issue by skipping the GRO stage for shared or cloned skbs. To reduce the chance of OoO, try to unclone the skbs before giving up.

v1 -> v2:

  • use avoid skb_copy and fallback to netif_receive_skb - Eric

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

5.5 medium