Vulnerability · Published Feb 23, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-26597net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 82.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy The variable rmnet_link_ops assign a *bigger* maxtype which leads to a global out-of-bounds read when parsing the netlink attributes. See bug trace below: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600 Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff92c438d0 by task syz-executor.6/84207 CPU: 0 PID: 84207 Comm: syz-executor.6 Tainted: G N 6.1.0 #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x8b/0xb3 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline] print_report+0x172/0x475 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:495 validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline] __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600 __nla_parse+0x3e/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:697 nla_parse_nested_deprecated include/net/netlink.h:1248 [inline] __rtnl_newlink+0x50a/0x1880 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3485 rtnl_newlink+0x64/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3594 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43c/0xd70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6091 netlink_rcv_skb+0x14f/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x54e/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 netlink_sendmsg+0x930/0xe50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x154/0x190 net/socket.c:734 ____sys_sendmsg+0x6df/0x840 net/socket.c:2482 ___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2536 __sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2565 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fdcf2072359 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 19 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 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fdcf13e3168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdcf219ff80 RCX: 00007fdcf2072359 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000200 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fdcf20bd493 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007fffbb8d7bdf R14: 00007fdcf13e3300 R15: 0000000000022000 </TASK> The buggy address belongs to the variable: rmnet_policy+0x30/0xe0 The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:0000000065bdeb3c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x155243 flags: 0x200000000001000(reserved|node=0|zone=2) raw: 0200000000001000 ffffea00055490c8 ffffea00055490c8 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffffffff92c43780: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 07 ffffffff92c43800: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 06 f9 f9 f9 >ffffffff92c43880: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ^ ffffffff92c43900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ffffffff92c43980: 00 00 00 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 According to the comment of `nla_parse_nested_deprecated`, the maxtype should be len(destination array) - 1. Hence use `IFLA_RMNET_MAX` here.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.76-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26597
Debian:13linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26597
Debian:14linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-102.112USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-102.112UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1057.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1057.63USN-6725-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.56.5.0-1016.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.56.5.0-1016.16~22.04.1USN-6707-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1060.69UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1060.69USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1017.17~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1017.17~22.04.1USN-6707-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1060.69.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1060.69.1USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1055.63USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1055.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1016.16~22.04.1USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1016.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1054.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1054.59USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1040.46USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1040.46UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-26.26~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-26.26~22.04.1USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1050.53USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1050.53UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1052.58USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1052.58UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1054.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1054.59USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-102.112UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-102.112USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-26.26.1~22.04.1USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-26.26.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1048.48UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1048.48USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1014.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1025.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.16.1.0-1035.35UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1018.19USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1018.19UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1055.61USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1055.61UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1019.19~22.04.1USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1019.19~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1050.53UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1050.53USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-26.26.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1010.11~22.04.1USN-6707-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1010.11~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26597

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 14452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before 093dab655808207f7a9f54cf156240aeafc7059014452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before 02467ab8b404d80429107588e0f3425cf5fcd2e514452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before 2295c22348faf795e1ccdf618f6eb7afdb2f744714452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before 3b5254862258b595662a0ccca6e9eeb88d6e746814452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before ee1dc3bf86f2df777038506b139371a9add0253414452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before c4734535034672f59f2652e1e0058c490da62a5c14452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before 17d06a5c44d8fd2e8e61bac295b09153496f87e114452ca3b5ce304fb2fea96dbc9ca1e4e7978551 – before b33fb5b801c6db408b774a68e7c8722796b59ecc
Linux Linux 4.17

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