CVE-2023-1390: Other (NVD-CWE-Other)
value: A remote denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s TIPC kernel module. The while loop in tipc_link_xmit() hits an unknown state while attempting to parse SKBs, which are not in the queue. Sending two small UDP packets to a system with a UDP bearer results in the CPU utilization for the system to instantly spike to 100%, causing a denial of service condition.
CWE description: NVD is only using a subset of CWE for mapping instead of the entire CWE, and the weakness type is not covered by that subset.
CVSS v3 base score: 7.5
Published: 2023-03-16T21:15Z
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Language: C
Files changed: net/tipc/link.c
Commit date: 2021-01-09 14:44:47 -0800
Commit message: tipc: fix NULL deref in tipc_link_xmit()

The buffer list can have zero skb as following path:
tipc_named_node_up()->tipc_node_xmit()->tipc_link_xmit(), so
we need to check the list before casting an &sk_buff.

Fault report:
 [] tipc: Bulk publication failure
 [] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical [#1] PREEMPT [...]
 [] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
 [] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.0-rc4+ #2
 [] Hardware name: Bochs ..., BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
 [] RIP: 0010:tipc_link_xmit+0xc1/0x2180
 [] Code: 24 b8 00 00 00 00 4d 39 ec 4c 0f 44 e8 e8 d7 0a 10 f9 48 [...]
 [] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006ea0 EFLAGS: 00010202
 [] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880224da000 RCX: 1ffff11003d3cc0d
 [] RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: ffffffff886007b9 RDI: 00000000000000c8
 [] RBP: ffffc90000007018 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52000000ded
 [] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: fffff52000000dec R12: ffffc90000007148
 [] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc90000007018
 [] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888037400000(0000) knlGS:000[...]
 [] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 [] CR2: 00007fffd2db5000 CR3: 000000002b08f000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

Fixes: af9b028e270fd ("tipc: make media xmit call outside node spinlock context")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108071337.3598-1-hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Diff: diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c
index 6ae2140eb4f7..a6a694b78927 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.c
+++ b/net/tipc/link.c
@@ -1028,33 +1028,38 @@ void tipc_link_reset(struct tipc_link *l)
  * Return: 0 if success, or errno: -ELINKCONG, -EMSGSIZE or -ENOBUFS
  */
 int tipc_link_xmit(struct tipc_link *l, struct sk_buff_head *list,
 		   struct sk_buff_head *xmitq)
 {
-	struct tipc_msg *hdr = buf_msg(skb_peek(list));
 	struct sk_buff_head *backlogq = &l->backlogq;
 	struct sk_buff_head *transmq = &l->transmq;
 	struct sk_buff *skb, *_skb;
 	u16 bc_ack = l->bc_rcvlink->rcv_nxt - 1;
 	u16 ack = l->rcv_nxt - 1;
 	u16 seqno = l->snd_nxt;
 	int pkt_cnt = skb_queue_len(list);
-	int imp = msg_importance(hdr);
 	unsigned int mss = tipc_link_mss(l);
 	unsigned int cwin = l->window;
 	unsigned int mtu = l->mtu;
+	struct tipc_msg *hdr;
 	bool new_bundle;
 	int rc = 0;
+	int imp;
+
+	if (pkt_cnt <= 0)
+		return 0;
 
+	hdr = buf_msg(skb_peek(list));
 	if (unlikely(msg_size(hdr) > mtu)) {
 		pr_warn("Too large msg, purging xmit list %d %d %d %d %d!\n",
 			skb_queue_len(list), msg_user(hdr),
 			msg_type(hdr), msg_size(hdr), mtu);
 		__skb_queue_purge(list);
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 	}
 
+	imp = msg_importance(hdr);
 	/* Allow oversubscription of one data msg per source at congestion */
 	if (unlikely(l->backlog[imp].len >= l->backlog[imp].limit)) {
 		if (imp == TIPC_SYSTEM_IMPORTANCE) {
 			pr_warn("%s<%s>, link overflow", link_rst_msg, l->name);
 			return -ENOBUFS;

Vulnerable code: 	struct tipc_msg *hdr = buf_msg(skb_peek(list));
	int imp = msg_importance(hdr);
Fixed code: 	struct tipc_msg *hdr;
	int imp;

	if (pkt_cnt <= 0)
		return 0;
	hdr = buf_msg(skb_peek(list));
	imp = msg_importance(hdr);