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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-50161): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-50161): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/07/2024
Created
03/10/2025
Added
02/20/2025
Modified
03/03/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Check the remaining info_cnt before repeating btf fields When trying to repeat the btf fields for array of nested struct, it doesn't check the remaining info_cnt. The following splat will be reported when the value of ret * nelems is greater than BTF_FIELDS_MAX: ------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../kernel/bpf/btf.c:3951:49 index 11 is out of range for type 'btf_field_info [11]' CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 411 Comm: test_progs ...... 6.11.0-rc4+ #1 Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ... Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x70 dump_stack+0x10/0x20 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x40 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x6f/0x80 ? kallsyms_lookup_name+0x48/0xb0 btf_parse_fields+0x992/0xce0 map_create+0x591/0x770 __sys_bpf+0x229/0x2410 __x64_sys_bpf+0x1f/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x199/0x9f0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7fea56f2cc5d ...... </TASK> ---[ end trace ]--- Fix it by checking the remaining info_cnt in btf_repeat_fields() before repeating the btf fields.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1005-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1008-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1009-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1009-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1009-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1009-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1010-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1010-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1011-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1011-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-18-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-18-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-realtime-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

References

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