Bug 1479307 (CVE-2017-1000112) - CVE-2017-1000112 kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch
Summary: CVE-2017-1000112 kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-1000112
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1480465 1481529 1481530 1481531 1481532 1481533 1481534 1481535 1481536 1481537 1640510 1725185
Blocks: 1479311
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 10:49 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-03-11 15:32 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ip_ufo_append_data() when building an UFO packet with MSG_MORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privileges.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:20:10 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2918 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2017-10-19 17:24:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2930 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2017-10-19 18:47:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2931 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2017-10-19 18:48:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3200 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2017-11-15 01:34:41 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:1931 0 None None None 2019-07-29 16:50:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:1932 0 None None None 2019-07-29 16:49:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:4159 0 None None None 2019-12-10 11:58:27 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-08 10:49:42 UTC 
A memory corruption issue was found in the Linux kernel. 

When building a UFO packet with MSG_MORE __ip_append_data() calls
ip_ufo_append_data() to append. However in between two send() calls,
the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads
to a memory corruption.

In case UFO packet lengths exceeds MTU, copy = maxfraglen - skb->len
becomes negative on the non-UFO path and the branch to allocate new
skb is taken. This triggers fragmentation and computation of fraggap =
skb_prev->len - maxfraglen. Fraggap can exceed MTU, causing copy =
datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap to become negative. Subsequently
skb_copy_and_csum_bits() writes out-of-bounds.

Introducing commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e89e9cf539a2
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-08-08 10:49:54 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Andrey Konovalov
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-08-11 08:08:16 UTC 
Public via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/277
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-08-11 08:08:59 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1480465]
Comment 5 Wade Mealing 2017-08-15 03:57:19 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5,6, 7 and MRG-2.

Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue.
Comment 7 Wade Mealing 2017-08-15 05:20:50 UTC 
Additional information:

This mainly affects systems that have UFO (UDP fragment offload) enabled.

You can see if this is configured on or off with the ethool command:

# ethtool -k em1 |grep "udp-fragmentation-offload:"

udp-fragmentation-offload: off [fixed]


If enabled, disabling the UDP fragementation offload will mitigate this flaw and is documented in this solution: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2127401
Comment 8 Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2017-08-15 13:36:33 UTC 
Fix is at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=85f1bd9a7b5a79d5baa8bf44af19658f7bf77bfa
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-19 13:27:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

Via RHSA-2017:2918 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2918
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-19 15:06:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2930 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2930
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-19 15:10:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2931 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2931
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-14 20:39:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:3200 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3200
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2019-07-29 16:49:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life

Via RHSA-2019:1932 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1932
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2019-07-29 16:50:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support

Via RHSA-2019:1931 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1931
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-10 11:58:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extended Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2019:4159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4159
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