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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-56638

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/27/2024 10:15:23 AM

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Added Description

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

netfilter: nft_inner: incorrect percpu area handling under softirq

Softirq can interrupt ongoing packet from process context that is
walking over the percpu area that contains inner header offsets.

Disable bh and perform three checks before restoring the percpu inner
header offsets to validate that the percpu area is valid for this
skbuff:

1) If the NFT_PKTINFO_INNER_FULL flag is set on, then this skbuff
   has already been parsed before for inner header fetching to
   register.

2) Validate that the percpu area refers to this skbuff using the
   skbuff pointer as a cookie. If there is a cookie mismatch, then
   this skbuff needs to be parsed again.

3) Finally, validate if the percpu area refers to this tunnel type.

Only after these three checks the percpu area is restored to a on-stack
copy and bh is enabled again.

After inner header fetching, the on-stack copy is stored back to the
percpu area.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c7314208c865086d78b4e88da53bc33da0b603
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b1d83da254be3bf054965c8f3b1ad976f460ae5
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da5cc778e7bf78fe525bc90ec2043f41415c31d9