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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50038

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 10/21/2024 4:15:16 PM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

syzbot managed to call xt_cluster match via ebtables:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c:72 xt_cluster_mt+0x196/0x780
 [..]
 ebt_do_table+0x174b/0x2a40

Module registers to NFPROTO_UNSPEC, but it assumes ipv4/ipv6 packet
processing.  As this is only useful to restrict locally terminating
TCP/UDP traffic, register this for ipv4 and ipv6 family only.

Pablo points out that this is a general issue, direct users of the
set/getsockopt interface can call into targets/matches that were only
intended for use with ip(6)tables.

Check all UNSPEC matches and targets for similar issues:

- matches and targets are fine except if they assume skb_network_header()
  is valid -- this is only true when called from inet layer: ip(6) stack
  pulls the ip/ipv6 header into linear data area.
- targets that return XT_CONTINUE or other xtables verdicts must be
  restricted too, they are incompatbile with the ebtables traverser, e.g.
  EBT_CONTINUE is a completely different value than XT_CONTINUE.

Most matches/targets are changed to register for NFPROTO_IPV4/IPV6, as
they are provided for use by ip(6)tables.

The MARK target is also used by arptables, so register for NFPROTO_ARP too.

While at it, bail out if connbytes fails to enable the corresponding
conntrack family.

This change passes the selftests in iptables.git.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bfcb7b71e735560077a42847f69597ec7dcc326 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cdc55ec6222bb195995cc58f7cb46e4d8907056 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85ff9a0f793ca52c527e75cd40a69c948627ebde [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f482bb7e27b37f1f734bb9a8eeb28b23d59d189 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/997f67d813ce0cf5eb3cdb8f124da68141e91b6c [No types assigned]