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High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 16, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

bpf: fix OOB devmap writes when deleting elements

Jordy reported issue against XSKMAP which also applies to DEVMAP - the
index used for accessing map entry, due to being a signed integer,
causes the OOB writes. Fix is simple as changing the type from int to
u32, however, when compared to XSKMAP case, one more thing needs to be
addressed.

When map is released from system via dev_map_free(), we iterate through
all of the entries and an iterator variable is also an int, which
implies OOB accesses. Again, change it to be u32.

Example splat below:

[ 160.724676] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc8fc2c001000
[ 160.731662] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 160.736876] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 160.742095] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 160.744678] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 160.749106] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 520 Comm: kworker/u145:12 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1+ #487
[ 160.757050] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 03/19/2019
[ 160.767642] Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred
[ 160.773308] RIP: 0010:dev_map_free+0x77/0x170
[ 160.777735] Code: 00 e8 fd 91 ed ff e8 b8 73 ed ff 41 83 7d 18 19 74 6e 41 8b 45 24 49 8b bd f8 00 00 00 31 db 85 c0 74 48 48 63 c3 48 8d 04 c7 <48> 8b 28 48 85 ed 74 30 48 8b 7d 18 48 85 ff 74 05 e8 b3 52 fa ff
[ 160.796777] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000ee1fe38 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 160.802086] RAX: ffffc8fc2c001000 RBX: 0000000080000000 RCX: 0000000000000024
[ 160.809331] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000024 RDI: ffffc9002c001000
[ 160.816576] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000023 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 160.823823] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000ee6b2 R12: dead000000000122
[ 160.831066] R13: ffff88810c928e00 R14: ffff8881002df405 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 160.838310] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8897e0c40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 160.846528] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 160.852357] CR2: ffffc8fc2c001000 CR3: 0000000005c32006 CR4: 00000000007726f0
[ 160.859604] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 160.866847] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 160.874092] PKRU: 55555554
[ 160.876847] Call Trace:
[ 160.879338]
[ 160.881477] ? __die+0x20/0x60
[ 160.884586] ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x450
[ 160.888746] ? search_extable+0x22/0x30
[ 160.892647] ? search_bpf_extables+0x5f/0x80
[ 160.896988] ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x140
[ 160.900973] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 160.905232] ? dev_map_free+0x77/0x170
[ 160.909043] ? dev_map_free+0x58/0x170
[ 160.912857] bpf_map_free_deferred+0x51/0x90
[ 160.917196] process_one_work+0x142/0x370
[ 160.921272] worker_thread+0x29e/0x3b0
[ 160.925082] ? rescuer_thread+0x4b0/0x4b0
[ 160.929157] kthread+0xd4/0x110
[ 160.932355] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[ 160.936079] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
[ 160.943396] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[ 160.950803] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 160.958482]

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 16, 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

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56615

GHSA ID

GHSA-wrw9-rpg8-p3wx

Source code

No known source code

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