sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 42% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL
sctp_auth_chunk_verify() returns true unconditionally when
chunk->auth_chunk is NULL, silently skipping authentication.
This is incorrect when:
1. skb_clone() failed in the BH receive path, leaving auth_chunk
NULL. In sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv() asoc is NULL for new
connections, so the early sctp_auth_recv_cid() check cannot
catch this.
2. No AUTH chunk precedes COOKIE-ECHO, so skb_clone() is never
called and auth_chunk remains NULL.
Fix by checking sctp_auth_recv_cid() when auth_chunk is NULL:
if authentication is required, return false to drop the chunk;
otherwise continue normally.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18957373920caf5cdaf5cf32e5d1d7a99ca7700ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28c5fdce9dd955d2baf5e28987819b6d7cfaf646https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a022ac51ad83b4ce6c898f4b9eefc65bd26b247https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6caf0e8590c0bf05a76b0d387726adf3a6f3725chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83f5031f2a6a49d696eb4cc0898345d12f9c6451https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e04823c120b376ef7dab14b60ebf6823aa16c14https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a129792b3aef15002746c13522781d92ed3522c3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec2e157fc9678a9bc411305a25aec3fd337d7efb