CVE-2023-53752
UNSCOREDDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: deal with integer overflows in kmalloc_reserve() Blamed commit changed: ptr = kmalloc(size); if (ptr) size = ksize(ptr); size = kmalloc_size_roundup(size); ptr = kmalloc(size); This allowed various crash as reported by syzbot [1] and Kyle Zeng. Problem is that if @size is bigger than 0x80000001, kmalloc_size_roundup(size) returns 2^32. kmalloc_reserve() uses a 32bit variable (obj_size), so 2^32 is truncated to 0. kmalloc(0) returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is not handled by skb allocations. Following trace can be triggered if a netdev->mtu is set close to 0x7fffffff We might in the future limit netdev->mtu to more sensible limit (like KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE). This patch is based on a syzbot report, and also a report and tentative fix from Kyle Zeng. [1] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __build_skb_around net/core/skbuff.c:294 [inline] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __alloc_skb+0x3c4/0x6e8 net/core/skbuff.c:527 Write of size 32 at addr 00000000fffffd10 by task syz-executor.4/22554 CPU: 1 PID: 22554 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.39-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/03/2023 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x1c8/0x1f4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:279 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:286 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x120/0x1a0 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_report+0xe4/0x4b4 mm/kasan/report.c:398 kasan_report+0x150/0x1ac mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2a4 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 memset+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:44 __build_skb_around net/core/skbuff.c:294 [inline] __alloc_skb+0x3c4/0x6e8 net/core/skbuff.c:527 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline] igmpv3_newpack+0x104/0x1088 net/ipv4/igmp.c:359 add_grec+0x81c/0x1124 net/ipv4/igmp.c:534 igmpv3_send_cr net/ipv4/igmp.c:667 [inline] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x1b0/0x1008 net/ipv4/igmp.c:810 call_timer_fn+0x1c0/0x9f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] __run_timers+0x54c/0x710 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 run_timer_softirq+0x28/0x4c kernel/time/timer.c:1803 _stext+0x380/0xfbc ____do_softirq+0x14/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:79 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:891 do_softirq_own_stack+0x20/0x2c arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:84 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:437 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0x1c0/0x4cc kernel/softirq.c:683 irq_exit_rcu+0x14/0x78 kernel/softirq.c:695 el0_interrupt+0x7c/0x2e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:717 __el0_irq_handler_common+0x18/0x24 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:724 el0t_64_irq_handler+0x10/0x1c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:729 el0t_64_irq+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584
How to fix
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CVSS v3.1 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 5% of all known CVEs.
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