vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52986): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2025-03-27 | 2025-04-01 | 2025-04-03 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Check for any of tcp_bpf_prots when cloning a listener
A listening socket linked to a sockmap has its sk_prot overridden. It
points to one of the struct proto variants in tcp_bpf_prots. The variant
depends on the socket's family and which sockmap programs are attached.
A child socket cloned from a TCP listener initially inherits their sk_prot.
But before cloning is finished, we restore the child's proto to the
listener's original non-tcp_bpf_prots one. This happens in
tcp_create_openreq_child -> tcp_bpf_clone.
Today, in tcp_bpf_clone we detect if the child's proto should be restored
by checking only for the TCP_BPF_BASE proto variant. This is not
correct. The sk_prot of listening socket linked to a sockmap can point to
to any variant in tcp_bpf_prots.
If the listeners sk_prot happens to be not the TCP_BPF_BASE variant, then
the child socket unintentionally is left if the inherited sk_prot by
tcp_bpf_clone.
This leads to issues like infinite recursion on close [1], because the
child state is otherwise not set up for use with tcp_bpf_prot operations.
Adjust the check in tcp_bpf_clone to detect all of tcp_bpf_prots variants.
Note that it wouldn't be sufficient to check the socket state when
overriding the sk_prot in tcp_bpf_update_proto in order to always use the
TCP_BPF_BASE variant for listening sockets. Since commit
b8b8315e39ff ("bpf, sockmap: Remove unhash handler for BPF sockmap usage")
it is possible for a socket to transition to TCP_LISTEN state while already
linked to a sockmap, e.g. connect() -> insert into map ->
connect(AF_UNSPEC) -> listen().
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-52986
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52986
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/ddce1e091757d0259107c6c0c7262df201de2b66
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12b0ec7c6953e1602957926439e5297095d7d065
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bd6074e1872d22190a8da30e796cbf937d334f0
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c681d7a4ed3d360de0574f4d6b7305a8de8dc54f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddce1e091757d0259107c6c0c7262df201de2b66
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52986

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