CVE-2021-47238

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

net: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888101bc4c00 (size 32): comm syz-executor527, pid 360, jiffies 4294807421 (age 19.329s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac 14 14 bb 00 00 02 00 ……………. backtrace: [<00000000f17c5244>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:558 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:688 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1971 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] ip_mc_add_src+0x95f/0xdb0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2095 [<000000001cb99709>] ip_mc_source+0x84c/0xea0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2416 [<0000000052cf19ed>] do_ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1294 [inline] [<0000000052cf19ed>] ip_setsockopt+0x114b/0x30c0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1423 [<00000000477edfbc>] raw_setsockopt+0x13d/0x170 net/ipv4/raw.c:857 [<00000000e75ca9bb>] __sys_setsockopt+0x158/0x270 net/socket.c:2117 [<00000000bdb993a8>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2128 [inline] [<00000000bdb993a8>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2125 [inline] [<00000000bdb993a8>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2125 [<000000006a1ffdbd>] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [<00000000b11467c4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

In commit 24803f38a5c0 (igmp: do not remove igmp souce list info when set link down), the ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() was removed, because it was also called in igmpv3_clear_delrec().

Rough callgraph:

inetdev_destroy -> ip_mc_destroy_dev -> igmpv3_clear_delrec -> ip_mc_clear_src -> RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL)

However, ip_mc_clear_src() called in igmpv3_clear_delrec() doesnt release in_dev->mc_list->sources. And RCU_INIT_POINTER() assigns the NULL to dev->ip_ptr. As a result, in_dev cannot be obtained through inetdev_by_index() and then in_dev->mc_list->sources cannot be released by ip_mc_del1_src() in the sock_close. Rough call sequence goes like:

sock_close -> __sock_release -> inet_release -> ip_mc_drop_socket -> inetdev_by_index -> ip_mc_leave_src -> ip_mc_del_src -> ip_mc_del1_src

So we still need to call ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() to free in_dev->mc_list->sources.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either:

• The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question.

• The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute – and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/147.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/227.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/492.html

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc13e75507faa17ac9f7562b4ef7bf8fcd78422
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e28018b5c83d5073f74a6fb72eabe8370b2f501
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dd2aeac2e9624cff9fa634710837e4f2e352758
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cff57eea3347f79f1867cc53e1093b6614138d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77de6ee73f54a9a89c0afa0bf4c53b239aa9953a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac31cc837cafb57a271babad8ccffbf733caa076
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8e2973029b8b2ce477b564824431f3385c77083
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc13e75507faa17ac9f7562b4ef7bf8fcd78422
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e28018b5c83d5073f74a6fb72eabe8370b2f501
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dd2aeac2e9624cff9fa634710837e4f2e352758
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cff57eea3347f79f1867cc53e1093b6614138d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77de6ee73f54a9a89c0afa0bf4c53b239aa9953a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac31cc837cafb57a271babad8ccffbf733caa076
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8e2973029b8b2ce477b564824431f3385c77083