bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 99% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic
br_mrp_start_test() and br_mrp_start_in_test() accept the user-supplied
interval value from netlink without validation. When interval is 0,
usecs_to_jiffies(0) yields 0, causing the delayed work
(br_mrp_test_work_expired / br_mrp_in_test_work_expired) to reschedule
itself with zero delay. This creates a tight loop on system_percpu_wq
that allocates and transmits MRP test frames at maximum rate, exhausting
all system memory and causing a kernel panic via OOM deadlock.
The same zero-interval issue applies to br_mrp_start_in_test_parse()
for interconnect test frames.
Use NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, 1) in the nla_policy tables for both
IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_TEST_INTERVAL and
IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_IN_TEST_INTERVAL, so zero is rejected at the
netlink attribute parsing layer before the value ever reaches the
workqueue scheduling code. This is consistent with how other bridge
subsystems (br_fdb, br_mst) enforce range constraints on netlink
attributes.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ec86b4b9e28170a2565cf36f0e6e2b96b55134dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2120bd8546cd6a63c558d135773aa8f41c8259fchttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610073ffb77ffd2b5eca182d2ac264de4834a175https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/630a15a31c2034b5b697f4aabc769b9d80d82446https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9bc352f716d1bebfe43354bce539ec2d0223b30https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ec80430bfa520e7352155d6ac632e527cba7aahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8850be9b2b3beac1c7967d95f169dd2785979dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa6e24963342de4370e3a3c9af41e38277b74cf3