Linux Kernel up to 6.1.118/6.6.62/6.11.9 MPTCP Protocol sk_wait_data divide by zero

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.118/6.6.62/6.11.9. Affected is the function sk_wait_data of the component MPTCP Protocol. Such manipulation leads to divide by zero. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-53123. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.118/6.6.62/6.11.9 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function sk_wait_data of the component MPTCP Protocol. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a divide by zero vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-369. The product divides a value by zero. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect Eric reported a division by zero splat in the MPTCP protocol: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6094 Comm: syz-executor317 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-syzkaller-00291-g05b92660cdfe #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 RIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x5b4/0x1310 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3163 Code: f6 44 01 e3 89 df e8 9b 75 09 f8 44 39 f3 0f 8d 11 ff ff ff e8 0d 74 09 f8 45 89 f4 e9 04 ff ff ff e8 00 74 09 f8 44 89 f0 99 7c 24 14 41 29 d6 45 89 f4 e9 ec fe ff ff e8 e8 73 09 f8 48 89 RSP: 0018:ffffc900041f7930 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000017e67 RBX: 0000000000017e67 RCX: ffffffff8983314b RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff898331b0 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00000000005d6000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000017e67 R10: 0000000000003e80 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000003e80 R13: ffff888031d9b440 R14: 0000000000017e67 R15: 00000000002eb000 FS: 00007feb5d7f16c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007feb5d8adbb8 CR3: 0000000074e4c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: __tcp_cleanup_rbuf+0x3e7/0x4b0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1493 mptcp_rcv_space_adjust net/mptcp/protocol.c:2085 [inline] mptcp_recvmsg+0x2156/0x2600 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2289 inet_recvmsg+0x469/0x6a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:885 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1051 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x1b2/0x250 net/socket.c:1073 __sys_recvfrom+0x1a5/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2265 __do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2283 [inline] __se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2279 [inline] __x64_sys_recvfrom+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2279 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7feb5d857559 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007feb5d7f1208 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002d RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007feb5d8e1318 RCX: 00007feb5d857559 RDX: 000000800000000e RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007feb5d8e1310 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81000000 R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007feb5d8e131c R13: 00007feb5d8ae074 R14: 000000800000000e R15: 00000000fffffdef and provided a nice reproducer. The root cause is the current bad handling of racing disconnect. After the blamed commit below, sk_wait_data() can return (with error) with the underlying socket disconnected and a zero rcv_mss. Catch the error and return without performing any additional operations on the current socket.

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-53123 since 11/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213470 (Debian dla-4008 : linux-config-6.1 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.119, 6.6.63 or 6.11.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a749b23059b4/a66805c9b22c/955388e1d5d2/581302298524 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 (213470) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1439). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• SUSE Linux
• Dell Secure Connect Gateway

Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.118
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.6.51
• 6.6.52
• 6.6.53
• 6.6.54
• 6.6.55
• 6.6.56
• 6.6.57
• 6.6.58
• 6.6.59
• 6.6.60
• 6.6.61
• 6.6.62
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5
• 6.11.6
• 6.11.7
• 6.11.8
• 6.11.9

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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