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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Mar 15, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 15, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

Reported by syzbot:
HEAD commit: 90c911ad Merge tag 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm..
git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=123aa35098fd3c000eb7
compiler: Debian clang version 11.0.1-2

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BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880145c78f8 by task syz-executor.4/17760

CPU: 0 PID: 17760 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-syzkaller #0
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
dump_stack+0x202/0x31e lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x5f/0x3b0 mm/kasan/report.c:232
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:399 [inline]
kasan_report+0x15c/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:416
fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline]
fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732
fib6_nh_release+0x9a/0x430 net/ipv6/route.c:3536
fib6_info_destroy_rcu+0xcb/0x1c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:174
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2559 [inline]
rcu_core+0x8f6/0x1450 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2794
__do_softirq+0x372/0x7a6 kernel/softirq.c:345
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:221 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x22c/0x260 kernel/softirq.c:422
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:434
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x91/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1100

asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:632
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f6/0x720 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5515
Code: f6 84 24 a1 00 00 00 02 0f 85 8d 02 00 00 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 4b c7 44 3d 09 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d
RSP: 0018:ffffc90009e06560 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 1ffff920013c0cc0 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90009e066e0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1f992b1
R10: fffffbfff1f992b1 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff920013c0cb4
rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:267
rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:656 [inline]
ext4_get_group_info+0xea/0x340 fs/ext4/ext4.h:3231
ext4_mb_prefetch+0x123/0x5d0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2212
ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x8a5/0x28f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2379
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xc6e/0x24f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4982
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x2be3/0x7210 fs/ext4/extents.c:4238
ext4_map_blocks+0xab3/0x1cb0 fs/ext4/inode.c:638
ext4_getblk+0x187/0x6c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:848
ext4_bread+0x2a/0x1c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:900
ext4_append+0x1a4/0x360 fs/ext4/namei.c:67
ext4_init_new_dir+0x337/0xa10 fs/ext4/namei.c:2768
ext4_mkdir+0x4b8/0xc00 fs/ext4/namei.c:2814
vfs_mkdir+0x45b/0x640 fs/namei.c:3819
ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:161 [inline]
ovl_mkdir_real+0x53/0x1a0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:146
ovl_create_real+0x280/0x490 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:193
ovl_workdir_create+0x425/0x600 fs/overlayfs/super.c:788
ovl_make_workdir+0xed/0x1140 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1355
ovl_get_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1492 [inline]
ovl_fill_super+0x39ee/0x5370 fs/overlayfs/super.c:2035
mount_nodev+0x52/0xe0 fs/super.c:1413
legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:592
vfs_get_tree+0x86/0x270 fs/super.c:1497
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2903 [inline]
path_mount+0x196f/0x2be0 fs/namespace.c:3233
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3246 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3454 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x2f9/0x3b0 fs/namespace.c:3431
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x4665f9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 15, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 15, 2024
Last updated Mar 15, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47126

GHSA ID

GHSA-q96w-v39p-hcjw

Source code

No known source code

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