Description

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

net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy

The variable rmnet_link_ops assign a *bigger* maxtype which leads to a
global out-of-bounds read when parsing the netlink attributes. See bug
trace below:

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BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff92c438d0 by task syz-executor.6/84207

CPU: 0 PID: 84207 Comm: syz-executor.6 Tainted: G N 6.1.0 #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x8b/0xb3 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
print_report+0x172/0x475 mm/kasan/report.c:395
kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline]
__nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600
__nla_parse+0x3e/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:697
nla_parse_nested_deprecated include/net/netlink.h:1248 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink+0x50a/0x1880 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3485
rtnl_newlink+0x64/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3594
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43c/0xd70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6091
netlink_rcv_skb+0x14f/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unic...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26597

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/093dab655808207f7a9f54cf156240aeafc70590
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02467ab8b404d80429107588e0f3425cf5fcd2e5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2295c22348faf795e1ccdf618f6eb7afdb2f7447
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b5254862258b595662a0ccca6e9eeb88d6e7468
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1dc3bf86f2df777038506b139371a9add02534
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4734535034672f59f2652e1e0058c490da62a5c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17d06a5c44d8fd2e8e61bac295b09153496f87e1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b33fb5b801c6db408b774a68e7c8722796b59ecc

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