Bug 2309846 (CVE-2024-44983)

Summary:	CVE-2024-44983 kernel: netfilter: flowtable: validate vlan header
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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OS:	Linux
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-04 20:21:41 UTC

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

netfilter: flowtable: validate vlan header

Ensure there is sufficient room to access the protocol field of the
VLAN header, validate it once before the flowtable lookup.

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
 nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xf4/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
 nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]
 nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5440 [inline]

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-09-04 22:03:19 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024090444-CVE-2024-44983-dcdd@gregkh/T