Bug 2334561 (CVE-2024-56647)

Summary: CVE-2024-56647 kernel: net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug
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A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. icmp_route_lookup() creates input routes for locally generated packets during xfrm relookup ICMP traffic. Then it will set the input route (dst->out = ip_rt_bug) to skb for DESTUNREACH, leading to loss of availability of the system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:03:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug

arp link failure may trigger ip_rt_bug while xfrm enabled, call trace is:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/route.c:1241 ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-00077-g2e1b3cc9d7f7
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ip_send_skb+0x14/0x40
 __icmp_send+0x42d/0x6a0
 ipv4_link_failure+0xe2/0x1d0
 arp_error_report+0x3c/0x50
 neigh_invalidate+0x8d/0x100
 neigh_timer_handler+0x2e1/0x330
 call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120
 __run_timer_base.part.0+0x1c9/0x270
 run_timer_softirq+0x4c/0x80
 handle_softirqs+0xac/0x280
 irq_exit_rcu+0x62/0x80
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x90

The script below reproduces this scenario:
ip xfrm policy add src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0 \
	dir out priority 0 ptype main flag localok icmp
ip l a veth1 type veth
ip a a 192.168.141.111/24 dev veth0
ip l s veth0 up
ping 192.168.141.155 -c 1

icmp_route_lookup() create input routes for locally generated packets
while xfrm relookup ICMP traffic.Then it will set input route
(dst->out = ip_rt_bug) to skb for DESTUNREACH.

For ICMP err triggered by locally generated packets, dst->dev of output
route is loopback. Generally, xfrm relookup verification is not required
on loopback interfaces (net.ipv4.conf.lo.disable_xfrm = 1).

Skip icmp relookup for locally generated packets to fix it.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-29 04:25:55 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122738-CVE-2024-56647-d71f@gregkh/T

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:50 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