packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
packet_snd() reads dev->hard_header_len multiple times while allocating
and constructing an skb. Device reconfiguration can change this value
concurrently, for example through bonding device type changes.
For SOCK_RAW, packet_snd() can save a larger value in reserve and later
allocate headroom using a smaller value. Moving skb->data back by reserve
then places it before skb->head, and the following copy from userspace can
attempt an out-of-bounds write.
packet_sendmsg_spkt() has the same issue because it calculates its
reservation and header offset from separate reads before dropping the RCU
read lock to allocate the skb.
Add LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX() for callers that already saved a header length.
Read hard_header_len once in packet_snd() and use it for allocation and
construction. In packet_sendmsg_spkt(), preserve the allocation-time value
through the device lookup retry.
The separate SOCK_DGRAM consistency problem between hard_header_len and
header_ops->create is not addressed here.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03390aa32e669cc4ecd7d34108e2e1afc13d689dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/142e287b3a25cfe909215177c23243e7fc5ae2b1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bb10753d428aadfc356a2bfe9acea09c82a62echttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a47127e33c340bc6d38dcc4552a094b4f5cc77https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9052756290962ffb9a661bcf319e92dedaaedfedhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91f041451f967cd87ed722a8f43c0b767a64f1a0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b06b6fce6d7deaf7238e09b48ce3b1125ff41acdhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcd4df60ac9481b1ceffdfe5ec38fe51dcaae812