Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-50033: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2025-1970)

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

slip: make slhc_remember() more robust against malicious packets

syzbot found that slhc_remember() was missing checks against

malicious packets [1].

slhc_remember() only checked the size of the packet was at least 20,

which is not good enough.

We need to make sure the packet includes the IPv4 and TCP header

that are supposed to be carried.

Add iph and th pointers to make the code more readable.

[1]

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in slhc_remember+0x2e8/0x7b0 drivers/net/slip/slhc.c:666

slhc_remember+0x2e8/0x7b0 drivers/net/slip/slhc.c:666

ppp_receive_nonmp_frame+0xe45/0x35e0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2455

ppp_receive_frame drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2372 [inline]

ppp_do_recv+0x65f/0x40d0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2212

ppp_input+0x7dc/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2327

pppoe_rcv_core+0x1d3/0x720 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379

sk_backlog_rcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1113

__release_sock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3072

release_sock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3626

pppoe_sendmsg+0x2b8/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:903

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744

____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602

___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656

__sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742

__do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline]

__se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline]

__x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768

x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4091 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4134 [inline]

kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4186

kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:587

__alloc_skb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:678

alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]

sock_wmalloc+0xfe/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:2732

pppoe_sendmsg+0x3a7/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:867

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744

____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602

___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656

__sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742

__do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline]

__se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline]

__x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768

x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5460 Comm: syz.2.33 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00006-g87d6aab2389e #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024