Vulnerability · Published Dec 27, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-56639net: hsr: must allocate more bytes for RedBox support

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-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 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: must allocate more bytes for RedBox support Blamed commit forgot to change hsr_init_skb() to allocate larger skb for RedBox case. Indeed, send_hsr_supervision_frame() will add two additional components (struct hsr_sup_tlv and struct hsr_sup_payload) syzbot reported the following crash: skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffff8afd4b0a len:34 put:6 head:ffff88802ad29e00 data:ffff88802ad29f22 tail:0x144 end:0x140 dev:gretap0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 ! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 7611 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x157/0x1d0 net/core/skbuff.c:206 Code: b6 04 01 84 c0 74 04 3c 03 7e 21 8b 4b 70 41 56 45 89 e8 48 c7 c7 a0 7d 9b 8c 41 57 56 48 89 ee 52 4c 89 e2 e8 9a 76 79 f8 90 <0f> 0b 4c 89 4c 24 10 48 89 54 24 08 48 89 34 24 e8 94 76 fb f8 4c RSP: 0018:ffffc90000858ab8 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000087 RBX: ffff8880598c08c0 RCX: ffffffff816d3e69 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff816de786 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: ffffffff8c9b91c0 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000302 R11: ffffffff961cc1d0 R12: ffffffff8afd4b0a R13: 0000000000000006 R14: ffff88804b938130 R15: 0000000000000140 FS: 000055558a3d6500(0000) GS:ffff88806a800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f1295974ff8 CR3: 000000002ab6e000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <IRQ> skb_over_panic net/core/skbuff.c:211 [inline] skb_put+0x174/0x1b0 net/core/skbuff.c:2617 send_hsr_supervision_frame+0x6fa/0x9e0 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:342 hsr_proxy_announce+0x1a3/0x4a0 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:436 call_timer_fn+0x1a0/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1794 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1845 [inline] __run_timers+0x6e8/0x930 kernel/time/timer.c:2419 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2430 [inline] __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2423 [inline] run_timer_base+0x111/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2439 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x40 kernel/time/timer.c:2449 handle_softirqs+0x213/0x8f0 kernel/softirq.c:554 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:588 [inline] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:428 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:637 [inline] irq_exit_rcu+0xbb/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:649 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 </IRQ>

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56639
Debian:14linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56639

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux cb3a332662b7fbe9f20849473c1b2c59e7d5d617 – before e6773b7da5ecb11ef8e95b50145fd963e326e0f1d90e4f72e8d464577dac67a18e69eb4a26abd63b – before a77a45fbadd9c053e8cf3a9ce2e23bcd23819ea65055cccfc2d1cc1a7306f6bcdcd0ee9521d707f5 – before 688842f47ee9fb392d1c3a1ced1d21d505b149685055cccfc2d1cc1a7306f6bcdcd0ee9521d707f5 – before af8edaeddbc52e53207d859c912b017fd9a77629
Linux Linux 6.10

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