vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-57802): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jan 15, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netrom: check buffer length before accessing it
Syzkaller reports an uninit value read from ax25cmp when sending raw message
through ieee802154 implementation.
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
nr_dev_get+0x20e/0x450 net/netrom/nr_route.c:601
nr_route_frame+0x1a2/0xfc0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:774
nr_xmit+0x5a/0x1c0 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:144
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564
__dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
raw_sendmsg+0x654/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:299
ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523
kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560
__alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2780
sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1884 [inline]
raw_sendmsg+0x36d/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:282
ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
CPU: 0 PID: 5037 Comm: syz-executor166 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7-syzkaller-00003-gfbafc3e621c3 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
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This issue occurs because the skb buffer is too small, and it's actual
allocation is aligned. This hides an actual issue, which is that nr_route_frame
does not validate the buffer size before using it.
Fix this issue by checking skb->len before accessing any fields in skb->data.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Solutions
References
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