Vulnerability CVE-2023-52580
Published: 2024-03-02

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

net/core: Fix ETH_P_1588 flow dissector

When a PTP ethernet raw frame with a size of more than 256 bytes followed
by a 0xff pattern is sent to __skb_flow_dissect, nhoff value calculation
is wrong. For example: hdr->message_length takes the wrong value (0xffff)
and it does not replicate real header length. In this case, 'nhoff' value
was overridden and the PTP header was badly dissected. This leads to a
kernel crash.

net/core: flow_dissector
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0000000e
net/core flow dissector hdr->message_length = 0x0000ffff
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0001000d (u16 overflow)
...
skb linear: 00000000: 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 88
skb frag: 00000000: f7 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

Using the size of the ptp_header struct will allow the corrected
calculation of the nhoff value.

net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x0000000e
net/core flow dissector nhoff = 0x00000030 (sizeof ptp_header)
...
skb linear: 00000000: 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 00 a0 c9 00 00 00 88 f7 ff ff
skb linear: 00000010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
skb linear: 00000020: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
skb frag: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

Kernel trace:
[ 74.984279] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 74.989471] kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2440!
[ 74.995237] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 75.001098] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Tainted: G U 5.15.85-intel-ese-standard-lts #1
[ 75.011629] Hardware name: Intel Corporation A-Island (CPU:AlderLake)/A-Island (ID:06), BIOS SB_ADLP.01.01.00.01.03.008.D-6A9D9E73-dirty Mar 30 2023
[ 75.026507] RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans+0xd0/0x130
[ 75.031594] Code: 03 88 47 78 eb c7 8b 47 68 2b 47 6c 48 8b 97 c0 00 00 00 83 f8 01 7e 1b 48 85 d2 74 06 66 83 3a ff 74 09 b8 00 04 00 00 eb ab <0f> 0b b8 00 01 00 00 eb a2 48 85 ff 74 eb 48 8d 54 24 06 31 f6 b9
[ 75.052612] RSP: 0018:ffff9948c0228de0 EFLAGS: 00010297
[ 75.058473] RAX: 00000000000003f2 RBX: ffff8e47047dc300 RCX: 0000000000001003
[ 75.066462] RDX: ffff8e4e8c9ea040 RSI: ffff8e4704e0a000 RDI: ffff8e47047dc300
[ 75.074458] RBP: ffff8e4704e2acc0 R08: 00000000000003f3 R09: 0000000000000800
[ 75.082466] R10: 000000000000000d R11: ffff9948c0228dec R12: ffff8e4715e4e010
[ 75.090461] R13: ffff9948c0545018 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000800
[ 75.098464] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e4e8fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 75.107530] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 75.113982] CR2: 00007f5eb35934a0 CR3: 0000000150e0a002 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[ 75.121980] PKRU: 55555554
[ 75.125035] Call Trace:
[ 75.127792] <IRQ>
[ 75.130063] ? eth_get_headlen+0xa4/0xc0
[ 75.134472] igc_process_skb_fields+0xcd/0x150
[ 75.139461] igc_poll+0xc80/0x17b0
[ 75.143272] __napi_poll+0x27/0x170
[ 75.147192] net_rx_action+0x234/0x280
[ 75.151409] __do_softirq+0xef/0x2f4
[ 75.155424] irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x110
[ 75.159432] common_interrupt+0xb8/0xd0
[ 75.163748] </IRQ>
[ 75.166112] <TASK>
[ 75.168473] asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[ 75.173175] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xe2/0x350
[ 75.178749] Code: 85 c0 0f 8f 04 02 00 00 31 ff e8 39 6c 67 ff 45 84 ff 74 12 9c 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 50 02 00 00 31 ff e8 52 b0 6d ff fb 45 85 f6 <0f> 88 b1 00 00 00 49 63 ce 4c 2b 2c 24 48 89 c8 48 6b d1 68 48 c1
[ 75.199757] RSP: 0018:ffff9948c013bea8 EFLAGS: 00000202
[ 75.205614] RAX: ffff8e4e8fb00000 RBX: ffffb948bfd23900 RCX: 000000000000001f
[ 75.213619] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff94206161 RDI: ffffffff94212e20
[ 75.221620] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 000000117568973a R09: 0000000000000001
[ 75.229622] R10: 000000000000afc8 R11: ffff8e4e8fb29ce4 R12: ffffffff945ae980
[ 75.237628] R13: 000000117568973a R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 75.245635] ?
---truncated---

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f90a7b9586d72f907092078a9f394733ca502cc9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/488ea2a3e2666022f79abfdd7d12e8305fc27a40
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48e105a2a1a10adc21c0ae717969f5e8e990ba48
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75ad80ed88a182ab2ad5513e448cf07b403af5c3
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