Bug 2324898 (CVE-2024-50252) - CVE-2024-50252 kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address
Summary: CVE-2024-50252 kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing re...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-50252
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
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Depends On: 2325126
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Reported: 2024-11-09 11:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-09 13:28 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2025:0170 0 None None None 2025-01-09 13:28:12 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:0059 0 None None None 2025-01-08 01:24:49 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-09 11:03:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address

The device stores IPv6 addresses that are used for encapsulation in
linear memory that is managed by the driver.

Changing the remote address of an ip6gre net device never worked
properly, but since cited commit the following reproducer [1] would
result in a warning [2] and a memory leak [3]. The problem is that the
new remote address is never added by the driver to its hash table (and
therefore the device) and the old address is never removed from it.

Fix by programming the new address when the configuration of the ip6gre
net device changes and removing the old one. If the address did not
change, then the above would result in increasing the reference count of
the address and then decreasing it.

[1]
 # ip link add name bla up type ip6gre local 2001:db8:1::1 remote 2001:db8:2::1 tos inherit ttl inherit
 # ip link set dev bla type ip6gre remote 2001:db8:3::1
 # ip link del dev bla
 # devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0

[2]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1682 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c:3002 mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1682 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-custom-g86b5b55bc835 #151
Hardware name: Nvidia SN5600/VMOD0013, BIOS 5.13 05/31/2023
RIP: 0010:mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x55f/0x1240
 notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90
 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x63e/0x9d0
 rtnl_dellink+0x16b/0x3a0
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100
 netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390
 netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0
 __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0
 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[3]
unreferenced object 0xffff898081f597a0 (size 32):
  comm "ip", pid 1626, jiffies 4294719324
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    20 01 0d b8 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01   ...............
    21 49 61 83 80 89 ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  !Ia.............
  backtrace (crc fd9be911):
    [<00000000df89c55d>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1da/0x260
    [<00000000ff2a1ddb>] mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_kvdl_index_get+0x281/0x340
    [<000000009ddd445d>] mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x47b/0x1240
    [<00000000743e7757>] notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0
    [<000000007c7b9e13>] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90
    [<000000002509645d>] register_netdevice+0x5f7/0x7a0
    [<00000000c2e7d2a9>] ip6gre_newlink_common.isra.0+0x65/0x130
    [<0000000087cd6d8d>] ip6gre_newlink+0x72/0x120
    [<000000004df7c7cc>] rtnl_newlink+0x471/0xa20
    [<0000000057ed632a>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0
    [<0000000032e0d5b5>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100
    [<00000000908bca63>] netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390
    [<00000000cdbe1c87>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420
    [<0000000011db153e>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320
    [<000000003b6d53eb>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0
    [<00000000cae27c62>] __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-11-11 07:01:10 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110937-CVE-2024-50252-aacc@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-01-08 01:24:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:0059 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0059


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