vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47010): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Feb 28, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo
tcp_set_default_congestion_control() is netns-safe in that it writes
to &net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control, but it also sets
ca->flags |= TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED which is not namespaced.
This has the unintended side-effect of changing the global
net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control sysctl, despite the fact that it
is read-only: 97684f0970f6 ("net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control
readonly in non-init netns")
Resolve this netns "leak" by only allowing the init netns to set the
default algorithm to one that is restricted. This restriction could be
removed if tcp_allowed_congestion_control were namespace-ified in the
future.
This bug was uncovered with
https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/linux-netns-sysctl-verify
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2021-47010
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47010
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/8d432592f30fcc34ef5a10aac4887b4897884493
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c1ea8bee75df8fe2184a50fcd0f70bf82986f42
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d432592f30fcc34ef5a10aac4887b4897884493
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9884f745108f7d25b189bbcd6754e284fb29ab68
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992de06308d9a9584d59b96d294ac676f924e437
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7d7bedd507bb732e600403b7a96f9fe48d0ca31
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efe1532a6e1a8e3c343d04fff510f0ed80328f9c
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47010

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