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CVE-2024-57802: netrom: check buffer length before accessing it

Description

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

netrom: check buffer length before accessing it

Syzkaller reports an uninit value read from ax25cmp when sending raw message
through ieee802154 implementation.

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
nr_dev_get+0x20e/0x450 net/netrom/nr_route.c:601
nr_route_frame+0x1a2/0xfc0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:774
nr_xmit+0x5a/0x1c0 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:144
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564
__dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
raw_sendmsg+0x654/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:299
ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

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Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-57802

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.04% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-13 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e9f54a14f2887be8634fb85cd2f13bec18a184
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6befa7c569787f53440274bbed1405fc07738d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769e36c2119a51070faf58819c58274f57a088db
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a110332ae268d0b005247c3b9a7d703b875c49
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f647d72245aadce30618f4c8fd3803904418dbec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba7f80d98d4965349cfcd258dd78418496c1625
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fd163aed2edd967a244499754dec991d8b4c7d

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