Bug 2334483 (CVE-2024-56616)

Summary: CVE-2024-56616 kernel: drm/dp_mst: Fix MST sideband message body length check
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 15:04:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/dp_mst: Fix MST sideband message body length check

Fix the MST sideband message body length check, which must be at least 1
byte accounting for the message body CRC (aka message data CRC) at the
end of the message.

This fixes a case where an MST branch device returns a header with a
correct header CRC (indicating a correctly received body length), with
the body length being incorrectly set to 0. This will later lead to a
memory corruption in drm_dp_sideband_append_payload() and the following
errors in dmesg:

   UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c:786:25
   index -1 is out of range for type 'u8 [48]'
   Call Trace:
    drm_dp_sideband_append_payload+0x33d/0x350 [drm_display_helper]
    drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg+0x3ce/0x5f0 [drm_display_helper]
    drm_dp_mst_hpd_irq_handle_event+0xc8/0x1580 [drm_display_helper]

   memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 18446744073709551615) of single field "&msg->msg[msg->curlen]" at drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c:791 (size 256)
   Call Trace:
    drm_dp_sideband_append_payload+0x324/0x350 [drm_display_helper]
    drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg+0x3ce/0x5f0 [drm_display_helper]
    drm_dp_mst_hpd_irq_handle_event+0xc8/0x1580 [drm_display_helper]

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 06:17:13 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122708-CVE-2024-56616-ae89@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966