batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 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:
batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
The network and transport header fields in struct sk_buff are 16-bit
offsets from skb->head, and U16_MAX is reserved as the unset transport
header value. batadv_tvlv_call_handler() sets both fields from a received
multicast TVLV without checking whether the TVLV end is representable.
If the end offset exceeds the field's range, skb_set_transport_header()
truncates it so that the transport header precedes the network header.
The negative difference is then returned by skb_network_header_len() as
a large u32. batadv_mcast_forw_packet() consequently accepts an oversized
multicast tracker and accesses memory beyond the skb data.
Add skb_set_transport_header_careful(), an offset-aware counterpart to
skb_reset_transport_header_careful(), which validates the final
head-relative offset before assigning it. Use the new helper in
batadv_tvlv_call_handler() and reject unrepresentable TVLVs before
setting the network header.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b466746fe109127fd983100a228cdd1f1f6ece2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b46baa591d0a7c16b62f150917187e70d053be6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/916ec741e65af072b98e475feaad98c063da1b7chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da1f5aa7ec93f2cc17f5cd30efc54f62af433cf2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12c2de4f542e3220e17e0606f492110064f04cb