Linux Kernel up to 5.10.41/5.12.8 sched out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.41/5.12.8. Affected is an unknown function of the component sched. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-47175. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.41/5.12.8. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component sched. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: fq_pie: fix OOB access in the traffic path the following script: # tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle 0x1 root fq_pie flows 2 # tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact # tc filter add dev eth0 egress matchall action skbedit priority 0x10002 # ping 192.0.2.2 -I eth0 -c2 -w1 -q produces the following splat: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fq_pie_qdisc_enqueue+0x1314/0x19d0 [sch_fq_pie] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888171306924 by task ping/942 CPU: 3 PID: 942 Comm: ping Not tainted 5.12.0+ #441 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x92/0xc1 print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x150 kasan_report.cold.13+0x7f/0x111 fq_pie_qdisc_enqueue+0x1314/0x19d0 [sch_fq_pie] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1034/0x2b10 ip_finish_output2+0xc62/0x2120 __ip_finish_output+0x553/0xea0 ip_output+0x1ca/0x4d0 ip_send_skb+0x37/0xa0 raw_sendmsg+0x1c4b/0x2d00 sock_sendmsg+0xdb/0x110 __sys_sendto+0x1d7/0x2b0 __x64_sys_sendto+0xdd/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7fe69735c3eb Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8d 05 75 42 2c 00 41 89 ca 8b 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 75 c3 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 89 RSP: 002b:00007fff06d7fb38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055e961413700 RCX: 00007fe69735c3eb RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 000055e961413700 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: 000055e961410500 R09: 0000000000000010 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff06d81260 R13: 00007fff06d7fb40 R14: 00007fff06d7fc30 R15: 000055e96140f0a0 Allocated by task 917: kasan_save_stack+0x19/0x40 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0xa0 __kmalloc_node+0x139/0x280 fq_pie_init+0x555/0x8e8 [sch_fq_pie] qdisc_create+0x407/0x11b0 tc_modify_qdisc+0x3c2/0x17e0 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x346/0x8e0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x380 netlink_unicast+0x439/0x630 netlink_sendmsg+0x719/0xbf0 sock_sendmsg+0xe2/0x110 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x890 ___sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x160 __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x170 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888171306800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 36 bytes to the right of 256-byte region [ffff888171306800, ffff888171306900) The buggy address belongs to the page: page:00000000bcfb624e refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x171306 head:00000000bcfb624e order:1 compound_mapcount:0 flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) raw: 0017ffffc0010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888100042b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888171306800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888171306880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc >ffff888171306900: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ^ ffff888171306980: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888171306a00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fix fq_pie traffic path to avoid selecting 'q->flows + q->flows_cnt' as a valid flow: it's an address beyond the allocated memory.

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2021-47175. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239841 (TencentOS Server 4: kernel (TSSA-2024:0960)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.10.42, 5.12.9 or 5.13 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e6294c06e7c6/7a1bdec12e43/e70f7a11876a is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (239841) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-0699). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• EMC Avamar
• Dell NetWorker
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.10.0
• 5.10.1
• 5.10.2
• 5.10.3
• 5.10.4
• 5.10.5
• 5.10.6
• 5.10.7
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• 5.10.37
• 5.10.38
• 5.10.39
• 5.10.40
• 5.10.41
• 5.12.0
• 5.12.1
• 5.12.2
• 5.12.3
• 5.12.4
• 5.12.5
• 5.12.6
• 5.12.7
• 5.12.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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