Description

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

net: dsa: fix netdev_priv() dereference before check on non-DSA netdevice events

After the blamed commit, we started doing this dereference for every
NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER and NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER event in the system.

static inline struct dsa_port *dsa_user_to_port(const struct net_device *dev)
{
struct dsa_user_priv *p = netdev_priv(dev);

return p->dp;
}

Which is obviously bogus, because not all net_devices have a netdev_priv()
of type struct dsa_user_priv. But struct dsa_user_priv is fairly small,
and p->dp means dereferencing 8 bytes starting with offset 16. Most
drivers allocate that much private memory anyway, making our access not
fault, and we discard the bogus data quickly afterwards, so this wasn't
caught.

But the dummy interface is somewhat special in that it calls
alloc_netdev() with a priv size of 0. So every netdev_priv() dereference
is invalid, and we get this when we emit a NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER event
with a VLAN as its new upper:

$ ip link add dummy1 type dummy
$ ip link add link dummy1 name dummy1.100 type vlan id 100
[ 43.309174] ==================================================================
[ 43.316456] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dsa_user_prechangeupper+0x30/0xe8
[ 43.323835] Read of size 8 at addr ffff3f86481d2990 by task ip/374
[ 43.330058]
[ 43.342436] Call trace:
[ 43.366542] dsa_user_prechangeupper+0x30/0xe8
[ 43.371024] dsa_user_netdevice_event+0xb...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26596

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69a1e2d938dbbfcff0e064269adf60ad26dbb102
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbd909c20c11f0d29c0054d41e0d1f668a60e8c8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/844f104790bd69c2e4dbb9ee3eba46fde1fcea7b

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