Guests can trigger NIC interface reset/abort/crash via netback. It is possible for a guest to trigger a NIC interface reset/abort/crash in a Linux based network backend by sending certain kinds of packets. It appears to be an (unwritten?) assumption in the rest of the Linux network stack that packet protocol headers are all contained within the linear section of the SKB and some NICs behave badly if this is not the case. This has been reported to occur with Cisco (enic) and Broadcom NetXtrem II BCM5780 (bnx2x) though it may be an issue with other NICs/drivers as well. In case the frontend is sending requests with split headers, netback will forward those violating above mentioned assumption to the networking core, resulting in said misbehavior. References: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/170 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/att-170/xsa423-linux.patch https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-423.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/07/2
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2158199]
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-3643
This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.0.13 stable kernel updates.