Vulnerability CVE-2024-43817
Published: 2024-08-17

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

net: missing check virtio

Two missing check in virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() allowed syzbot
to crash kernels again

1. After the skb_segment function the buffer may become non-linear
(nr_frags != 0), but since the SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag is not set anywhere
the __skb_linearize function will not be executed, then the buffer will
remain non-linear. Then the condition (offset >= skb_headlen(skb))
becomes true, which causes WARN_ON_ONCE in skb_checksum_help.

2. The struct sk_buff and struct virtio_net_hdr members must be
mathematically related.
(gso_size) must be greater than (needed) otherwise WARN_ON_ONCE.
(remainder) must be greater than (needed) otherwise WARN_ON_ONCE.
(remainder) may be 0 if division is without remainder.

offset+2 (4191) > skb_headlen() (1116)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5084 at net/core/dev.c:3303 skb_checksum_help+0x5e2/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3303
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5084 Comm: syz-executor336 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc3-syzkaller-00014-gdf60cee26a2e #0
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/10/2023
RIP: 0010:skb_checksum_help+0x5e2/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3303
Code: 89 e8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 52 01 00 00 44 89 e2 2b 53 74 4c 89 ee 48 c7 c7 40 57 e9 8b e8 af 8f dd f8 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 87 fe ff ff e8 40 0f 6e f9 e9 4b fa ff ff 48 89 ef
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a9f338 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888025125780 RCX: ffffffff814db209
RDX: ffff888015393b80 RSI: ffffffff814db216 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff8880251257f4 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000000000045c
R13: 000000000000105f R14: ffff8880251257f0 R15: 000000000000105d
FS: 0000555555c24380(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000002000f000 CR3: 0000000023151000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip_do_fragment+0xa1b/0x18b0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:777
ip_fragment.constprop.0+0x161/0x230 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:584
ip_finish_output_gso net/ipv4/ip_output.c:286 [inline]
__ip_finish_output net/ipv4/ip_output.c:308 [inline]
__ip_finish_output+0x49c/0x650 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:295
ip_finish_output+0x31/0x310 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:323
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:303 [inline]
ip_output+0x13b/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:433
dst_output include/net/dst.h:451 [inline]
ip_local_out+0xaf/0x1a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:129
iptunnel_xmit+0x5b4/0x9b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:82
ipip6_tunnel_xmit net/ipv6/sit.c:1034 [inline]
sit_tunnel_xmit+0xed2/0x28f0 net/ipv6/sit.c:1076
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3545 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13d/0x6d0 net/core/dev.c:3561
__dev_queue_xmit+0x7c1/0x3d60 net/core/dev.c:4346
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
packet_xmit+0x257/0x380 net/packet/af_packet.c:276
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x24ca/0x5240 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x180 net/socket.c:745
__sys_sendto+0x255/0x340 net/socket.c:2190
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2202 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2198 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2198
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b1997487a3f3373b0f580c8a20b56c1b64b0775
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d41ebe0cd4635f6410471efc1dd71b33e894cf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9164903b8b303c34723177b02fe91e49e3c4cd7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e269d79c7d35aa3808b1f3c1737d63dab504ddc8
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