Linux: amt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path
What fixes it
- 95114e421196250e3d9662f12df442799477d3c3LinuxCVE List
- 181cb48c1e9af6b402567e132f879f89d1c54131LinuxCVE List
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
amt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path
An skb queued in a qdisc can outlive the tunnel it references through a raw pointer in skb->cb. For example, with igmp_qrv set to 1 on the relay a tunnel lives for 135s, so a netem delay of 180s on the amt device outlives it; when the tunnel expires and is freed, the subsequent dequeue triggers a use-after-free in amt_dev_xmit().
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20 Call Trace: amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20 [drivers/net/amt.c:1262] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x22f/0x620 sch_direct_xmit+0x12e/0xac0 netem_dequeue+0x333/0xc50 net_tx_action+0x35c/0xa60
amt_send_igmp_gq() and amt_send_mld_gq() are only called from amt_request_handler(), inside the rcu_read_lock_bh() section of amt_rcv(). amt_request_handler() already has the tunnel the query is for: it found or created it inside that section. Queuing the query with dev_queue_xmit() only leads back into amt_dev_xmit(), which strips the Ethernet header and calls amt_send_membership_query() for that tunnel.
Make that call directly from the two senders instead, the same way amt_send_advertisement() transmits from the receive path. The query never waits in a qdisc, the tunnel is only dereferenced inside the RCU section that found or created it, and nothing is stored in skb->cb, so no lookup or refcount is needed. Remove the query branch of amt_dev_xmit(), amt_skb_cb() and struct amt_skb_cb, which have no users left.
Behaviour changes:
- The relay's own General Queries no longer pass through the amt
device's egress path: its qdisc, tc egress (clsact/tcx), the netfilter egress hook and packet taps. They are still visible as UDP on the underlay.
- A query that is sent successfully is no longer counted as
tx_dropped. The old query branch left through the unlock label, which counted every sent query as dropped.
- A query that reaches amt_dev_xmit() on a relay from elsewhere,
such as a userspace querier, is now dropped at the IGMP/MLD type switch. Before, it trusted whatever skb->cb held, and a NULL tunnel hit the WARN_ON(1).
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 12
- Linuxaffected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 before 95114e421196250e3d9662f12df442799477d3c3CVE List
- Linuxaffected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 before e7183b7d518ce8b3e1f7284f9881d7a87569df14CVE List
- Linuxaffected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 before 181cb48c1e9af6b402567e132f879f89d1c54131CVE List
- Linuxaffected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 before e7ea63b4195a150604993044ab574d8240f2a399CVE List
- Linuxaffected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 before afae89de73dd693cfa329580ba0fba63bd3f0a11CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 5.16CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 5.16CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.6.160 through 6.6.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.12.113 through 6.12.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.18.57 through 6.18.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.11 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List
References 5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/95114e421196250e3d9662f12df442799477d3c3Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7183b7d518ce8b3e1f7284f9881d7a87569df14Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/181cb48c1e9af6b402567e132f879f89d1c54131Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7ea63b4195a150604993044ab574d8240f2a399Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/afae89de73dd693cfa329580ba0fba63bd3f0a11Referencevia CVE List