2024-12-27 13:49:57
Linux
PUBLISHED
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netlink: fix false positive warning in extack during dumps
Commit under fixes extended extack reporting to dumps.
It works under normal conditions, because extack errors are
usually reported during ->start() or the first ->dump(),
its quite rare that the dump starts okay but fails later.
If the dump does fail later, however, the input skb will
already have the initiating message pulled, so checking
if bad attr falls within skb->data will fail.
Switch the check to using nlh, which is always valid.
syzbot found a way to hit that scenario by filling up
the receive queue. In this case we initiate a dump
but dont call ->dump() until there is read space for
an skb.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5845 at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2210 netlink_ack_tlv_fill+0x1a8/0x560 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2209
RIP: 0010:netlink_ack_tlv_fill+0x1a8/0x560 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2209
Call Trace: