Vulnerability CVE-2023-52906

Vulnerability CVE-2023-52906

Published: 2024-08-21

Description:

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

net/sched: act_mpls: Fix warning during failed attribute validation

The 'TCA_MPLS_LABEL' attribute is of 'NLA_U32' type, but has a
validation type of 'NLA_VALIDATE_FUNCTION'. This is an invalid
combination according to the comment above 'struct nla_policy':

"
Meaning of `validate' field, use via NLA_POLICY_VALIDATE_FN:
NLA_BINARY Validation function called for the attribute.
All other Unused - but note that it's a union
"

This can trigger the warning [1] in nla_get_range_unsigned() when
validation of the attribute fails. Despite being of 'NLA_U32' type, the
associated 'min'/'max' fields in the policy are negative as they are
aliased by the 'validate' field.

Fix by changing the attribute type to 'NLA_BINARY' which is consistent
with the above comment and all other users of NLA_POLICY_VALIDATE_FN().
As a result, move the length validation to the validation function.

No regressions in MPLS tests:

# ./tdc.py -f tc-tests/actions/mpls.json
[...]
# echo $?
0

[1]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 17743 at lib/nlattr.c:118
nla_get_range_unsigned+0x1d8/0x1e0 lib/nlattr.c:117
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 17743 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc8 #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.13.0-48-gd9c812dda519-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:nla_get_range_unsigned+0x1d8/0x1e0 lib/nlattr.c:117
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__netlink_policy_dump_write_attr+0x23d/0x990 net/netlink/policy.c:310
netlink_policy_dump_write_attr+0x22/0x30 net/netlink/policy.c:411
netlink_ack_tlv_fill net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2454 [inline]
netlink_ack+0x546/0x760 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2506
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1b7/0x240 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2546
rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6109
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x5e9/0x6b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x739/0x860 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x38f/0x500 net/socket.c:2482
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2536 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x197/0x230 net/socket.c:2565
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2574 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2572 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x50 net/socket.c:2572
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b157c3c5d6b8ddca48d53c9e662032f65af8d61

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/453277feb41c2235cf2c0de9209eef962c401457

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e2c38827cdc6fdd3bb375c8607fc04d289756f9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a97b544b98e44f596219ebb290fd2ba2fd5d644

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e17f99220d111ea031b44153fdfe364b0024ff2

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