Vulnerability CVE-2021-47591

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47591

Published: 2024-06-19

Description:

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

mptcp: remove tcp ulp setsockopt support

TCP_ULP setsockopt cannot be used for mptcp because its already
used internally to plumb subflow (tcp) sockets to the mptcp layer.

syzbot managed to trigger a crash for mptcp connections that are
in fallback mode:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027]
CPU: 1 PID: 1083 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
RIP: 0010:tls_build_proto net/tls/tls_main.c:776 [inline]
[..]
__tcp_set_ulp net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:139 [inline]
tcp_set_ulp+0x428/0x4c0 net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:160
do_tcp_setsockopt+0x455/0x37c0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3391
mptcp_setsockopt+0x1b47/0x2400 net/mptcp/sockopt.c:638

Remove support for TCP_ULP setsockopt.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3de0c86d42f841d1d64f316cd949e65c566f0734

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/404cd9a22150f24acf23a8df2ad0c094ba379f57

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