CVE-2024-26663

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

tipc: Check the bearer type before calling tipc_udp_nl_bearer_add()

syzbot reported the following general protection fault [1]:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000010: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000080-0x0000000000000087] … RIP: 0010:tipc_udp_is_known_peer+0x9c/0x250 net/tipc/udp_media.c:291 … Call Trace: tipc_udp_nl_bearer_add+0x212/0x2f0 net/tipc/udp_media.c:646 tipc_nl_bearer_add+0x21e/0x360 net/tipc/bearer.c:1089 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fc/0x2e0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:972 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1052 [inline] genl_rcv_msg+0x561/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1067 netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2544 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1341 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x53b/0x810 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1367 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b7/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1909 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x180 net/socket.c:745 ____sys_sendmsg+0x6ac/0x940 net/socket.c:2584 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2638 __sys_sendmsg+0x117/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2667 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

The cause of this issue is that when tipc_nl_bearer_add() is called with the TIPC_NLA_BEARER_UDP_OPTS attribute, tipc_udp_nl_bearer_add() is called even if the bearer is not UDP.

tipc_udp_is_known_peer() called by tipc_udp_nl_bearer_add() assumes that the media_ptr field of the tipc_bearer has an udp_bearer type object, so the function goes crazy for non-UDP bearers.

This patch fixes the issue by checking the bearer type before calling tipc_udp_nl_bearer_add() in tipc_nl_bearer_add().

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cd331dfd6023640c9669d0592bc0fd491205f87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d7314f2fb9515bdaac9829d4d8eb34edd1fe95
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24ec8f0da93b8a9fba11600be8a90f0d73fb46f1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3871aa01e1a779d866fa9dfdd5a836f342f4eb87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d3a5b31b43515b5752ff282702ca546ec3e48b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f70f0b412458c622a12d4292782c8e92e210c2f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/888e3524be87f3df9fa3c083484e4b62b3e3bb59
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1701ea85ef0ec7be6a1b36c7da69f572ed2fd12
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cd331dfd6023640c9669d0592bc0fd491205f87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d7314f2fb9515bdaac9829d4d8eb34edd1fe95
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24ec8f0da93b8a9fba11600be8a90f0d73fb46f1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3871aa01e1a779d866fa9dfdd5a836f342f4eb87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d3a5b31b43515b5752ff282702ca546ec3e48b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f70f0b412458c622a12d4292782c8e92e210c2f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/888e3524be87f3df9fa3c083484e4b62b3e3bb59
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1701ea85ef0ec7be6a1b36c7da69f572ed2fd12
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html