Bug 2334356 (CVE-2024-53212) - CVE-2024-53212 kernel: netlink: fix false positive warning in extack during dumps
Summary: CVE-2024-53212 kernel: netlink: fix false positive warning in extack during d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-53212
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2024-12-27 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-12-28 15:04 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 14:01:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netlink: fix false positive warning in extack during dumps

Commit under fixes extended extack reporting to dumps.
It works under normal conditions, because extack errors are
usually reported during ->start() or the first ->dump(),
it's quite rare that the dump starts okay but fails later.
If the dump does fail later, however, the input skb will
already have the initiating message pulled, so checking
if bad attr falls within skb->data will fail.

Switch the check to using nlh, which is always valid.

syzbot found a way to hit that scenario by filling up
the receive queue. In this case we initiate a dump
but don't call ->dump() until there is read space for
an skb.

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5845 at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2210 netlink_ack_tlv_fill+0x1a8/0x560 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2209
RIP: 0010:netlink_ack_tlv_fill+0x1a8/0x560 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2209
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 netlink_dump_done+0x513/0x970 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2250
 netlink_dump+0x91f/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2351
 netlink_recvmsg+0x6bb/0x11d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1983
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1051 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0x22f/0x280 net/socket.c:1073
 __sys_recvfrom+0x246/0x3d0 net/socket.c:2267
 __do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2285 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2281 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvfrom+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2281
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x7ff37dd17a79

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 15:00:28 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122730-CVE-2024-53212-495a@gregkh/T


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