CVE: CVE-2025-21692
Published: 2025-02-10
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing

Haowei Yan <g[PII_REDACTED]@gmail.com> found that ets_class_from_arg() can
index an Out-Of-Bound class in ets_class_from_arg() when passed clid of
0. The overflow may cause local privilege escalation.

 [   18.852298] ------------[ cut here ]------------
 [   18.853271] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_ets.c:93:20
 [   18.853743] index[PII_REDACTED][PII_REDACTED] is out of range for type 'ets_class [16]'
 [   18.854254] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1275 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.12.6-dirty #17
 [   18.854821] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
 [   18.856532] Call Trace:
 [   18.857441]  <TASK>
 [   18.858227]  dump_stack_lvl+0xc2/0xf0
 [   18.859607]  dump_stack+0x10/0x20
 [   18.860908]  __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xa7/0xf0
 [   18.864022]  ets_class_change+0x3d6/0x3f0
 [   18.864322]  tc_ctl_tclass+0x251/0x910
 [   18.864587]  ? lock_acquire+0x5e/0x140
 [   18.865113]  ? __mutex_lock+0x9c/0xe70
 [   18.866009]  ? __mutex_lock+0xa34/0xe70
 [   18.866401]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x170/0x6f0
 [   18.866806]  ? __lock_acquire+0x578/0xc10
 [   18.867184]  ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
 [   18.867503]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x59/0x110
 [   18.867776]  rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30
 [   18.868159]  netlink_unicast+0x1c3/0x2b0
 [   18.868440]  netlink_sendmsg+0x239/0x4b0
 [   18.868721]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x3e2/0x410
 [   18.869012]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xe0
 [   18.869276]  ? rseq_ip_fixup+0x198/0x260
 [   18.869563]  ? rseq_update_cpu_node_id+0x10a/0x190
 [   18.869900]  ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x5a/0xd0
 [   18.870196]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xcc/0x220
 [   18.870547]  ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150
 [   18.870821]  ? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x69/0x290
 [   18.871157]  __sys_sendmsg+0x69/0xd0
 [   18.871416]  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1d/0x30
 [   18.871699]  x64_sys_call+0x9e2/0x2670
 [   18.871979]  do_syscall_64+0x87/0x150
 [   18.873280]  ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150
 [   18.874742]  ? lock_release+0x7b/0x160
 [   18.876157]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x5ce/0x8f0
 [   18.877833]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xc2/0x210
 [   18.879608]  ? irqentry_exit+0x77/0xb0
 [   18.879808]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
 [   18.880023]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
 [   18.880223]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
 [   18.880426]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
 [   18.880683] RIP: 0033:0x44a957
 [   18.880851] Code: ff ff e8 fc 00 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 8974 24 10
 [   18.881766] RSP: 002b:00007ffcdd00fad8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00002e
 [   18.882149] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcdd010db8 RCX:[PII_REDACTED]44a957
 [   18.882507] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 00007ffcdd00fb70 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
 [   18.885037] RBP: 00007ffcdd010bc0 R08:[PII_REDACTED]03c770 R09:[PII_REDACTED]03c7c0
 [   18.887203] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
 [   18.888026] R13: 00007ffcdd010da8 R14:[PII_REDACTED]4ca7d0 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
 [   18.888395]  </TASK>
 [   18.888610] ---[ end trace ]---
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-129, CWE-129
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c56665dab1f4ac844bc156652d50d639093fa5; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1332c6ed446be787f901ed1064ec6a3c694f028a; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/997f6ec4208b23c87daf9f044689685f091826f7