vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-56647: kernel: net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 27, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | May 15, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug
arp link failure may trigger ip_rt_bug while xfrm enabled, call trace is:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/route.c:1241 ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-00077-g2e1b3cc9d7f7
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
ip_send_skb+0x14/0x40
__icmp_send+0x42d/0x6a0
ipv4_link_failure+0xe2/0x1d0
arp_error_report+0x3c/0x50
neigh_invalidate+0x8d/0x100
neigh_timer_handler+0x2e1/0x330
call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120
__run_timer_base.part.0+0x1c9/0x270
run_timer_softirq+0x4c/0x80
handle_softirqs+0xac/0x280
irq_exit_rcu+0x62/0x80
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x90
The script below reproduces this scenario:
ip xfrm policy add src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0 \
dir out priority 0 ptype main flag localok icmp
ip l a veth1 type veth
ip a a 192.168.141.111/24 dev veth0
ip l s veth0 up
ping 192.168.141.155 -c 1
icmp_route_lookup() create input routes for locally generated packets
while xfrm relookup ICMP traffic.Then it will set input route
(dst->out = ip_rt_bug) to skb for DESTUNREACH.
For ICMP err triggered by locally generated packets, dst->dev of output
route is loopback. Generally, xfrm relookup verification is not required
on loopback interfaces (net.ipv4.conf.lo.disable_xfrm = 1).
Skip icmp relookup for locally generated packets to fix it.
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