Vulnerability CVE-2024-44999
Published: 2024-09-04

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

gtp: pull network headers in gtp_dev_xmit()

syzbot/KMSAN reported use of uninit-value in get_dev_xmit() [1]

We must make sure the IPv4 or Ipv6 header is pulled in skb->head
before accessing fields in them.

Use pskb_inet_may_pull() to fix this issue.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ipv6_pdp_find drivers/net/gtp.c:220 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in gtp_build_skb_ip6 drivers/net/gtp.c:1229 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in gtp_dev_xmit+0x1424/0x2540 drivers/net/gtp.c:1281
ipv6_pdp_find drivers/net/gtp.c:220 [inline]
gtp_build_skb_ip6 drivers/net/gtp.c:1229 [inline]
gtp_dev_xmit+0x1424/0x2540 drivers/net/gtp.c:1281
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4913 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4922 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3580 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa20 net/core/dev.c:3596
__dev_queue_xmit+0x358c/0x5610 net/core/dev.c:4423
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3105 [inline]
packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3145 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x90e3/0xa3a0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3177
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:745
__sys_sendto+0x685/0x830 net/socket.c:2204
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2216 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2212 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2212
x64_sys_call+0x3799/0x3c10 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:45
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3994 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4037 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4080
kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:583
__alloc_skb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:674
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1320 [inline]
alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbf0 net/core/skbuff.c:6526
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa81/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2815
packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2994 [inline]
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3088 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x749c/0xa3a0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3177
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:745
__sys_sendto+0x685/0x830 net/socket.c:2204
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2216 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2212 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2212
x64_sys_call+0x3799/0x3c10 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:45
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7115 Comm: syz.1.515 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1-syzkaller-00043-g94ede2a3e913 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/27/2024

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d89d0c4a1c6d4d2a755e826351b0a101dbc86f3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5dda8db382c5751c4e572afc7c99df7da1f83ca
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb9a969fc190e85195d1b0f08038e7f6199044e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f6b62392453d8f36685d19b761307a8c5617ac1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/137d565ab89ce3584503b443bc9e00d44f482593
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34ba4f29f3d9eb52dee37512059efb2afd7e966f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3939d787139e359b77aaf9485d1e145d6713d7b9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a3be7ff9224f424e485287b54be00d2c6bd9c40
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