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High severity Unreviewed Published Feb 28, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 8, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: act_ct: fix wild memory access when clearing fragments

while testing re-assembly/re-fragmentation using act_ct, it's possible to
observe a crash like the following one:

KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0001000000000448-0x000100000000044f]
CPU: 50 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/50 Tainted: G S 5.12.0-rc7+ #424
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
RIP: 0010:inet_frag_rbtree_purge+0x50/0xc0
Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 c3 31 ed 48 89 df e8 a9 7a 38 ff 4c 89 fe 48 89 df 49 89 c6 e8 5b 3a 38 ff 48 8d 7b 40 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 75 59 48 8d bb d0 00 00 00 4c 8b 6b 40 48 89 f8 48
RSP: 0018:ffff888c31449db8 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000200000000089 RBX: 000100000000040e RCX: ffffffff989eb960
RDX: 0000000000000140 RSI: ffffffff97cfb977 RDI: 000100000000044e
RBP: 0000000000000900 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1186289350
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffed1186289350 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 000100000000040e R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888155e02160
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888c31440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005600cb70a5b8 CR3: 0000000a2c014005 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

inet_frag_destroy+0xa9/0x150
call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x180
run_timer_softirq+0x4fe/0xe70
__do_softirq+0x197/0x5a0
irq_exit_rcu+0x1de/0x200
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80

when act_ct temporarily stores an IP fragment, restoring the skb qdisc cb
results in putting random data in FRAG_CB(), and this causes those "wild"
memory accesses later, when the rbtree is purged. Never overwrite the skb
cb in case tcf_ct_handle_fragments() returns -EINPROGRESS.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 28, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 28, 2024
Last updated Jan 8, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47014

GHSA ID

GHSA-94mv-98xv-9mqq

Source code

No known source code

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