Description

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

ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb()

KMSAN reported uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb() [1]. __ip_make_skb()
tests HDRINCL to know if the skb has icmphdr. However, HDRINCL can cause a
race condition. If calling setsockopt(2) with IP_HDRINCL changes HDRINCL
while __ip_make_skb() is running, the function will access icmphdr in the
skb even if it is not included. This causes the issue reported by KMSAN.

Check FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH on fl4->flowi4_flags instead of testing HDRINCL
on the socket.

Also, fl4->fl4_icmp_type and fl4->fl4_icmp_code are not initialized. These
are union in struct flowi4 and are implicitly initialized by
flowi4_init_output(), but we should not rely on specific union layout.

Initialize these explicitly in raw_sendmsg().

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ip_make_skb+0x2b74/0x2d20 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481
__ip_make_skb+0x2b74/0x2d20 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481
ip_finish_skb include/net/ip.h:243 [inline]
ip_push_pending_frames+0x4c/0x5c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1508
raw_sendmsg+0x2381/0x2690 net/ipv4/raw.c:654
inet_sendmsg+0x27b/0x2a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x274/0x3c0 net/socket.c:745
__sys_sendto+0x62c/0x7b0 net/socket.c:2191
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0x130/0x200 net/socket.c:2199
do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x1f0 arch/x86/entry/common....

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-36927

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/5db08343ddb1b239320612036c398e4e1bb52818
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5c603ad4e6fcf42f84053e882ebe20184bb309e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc1092f51567277509563800a3c56732070b6aa4

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