CVE: CVE-2021-46955
Published: 2024-02-27
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets

running openvswitch on kernels built with KASAN, it's possible to see the
following splat while testing fragmentation of IPv4 packets:

 BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60
 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112fc713c by task handler2/1367

 CPU: 0 PID: 1367 Comm: handler2 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6+ #418
 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x92/0xc1
  print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x150
  kasan_report.cold.13+0x7f/0x111
  ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60
  ovs_fragment+0x5bf/0x840 [openvswitch]
  do_execute_actions+0x1bd5/0x2400 [openvswitch]
  ovs_execute_actions+0xc8/0x3d0 [openvswitch]
  ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xa39/0x1150 [openvswitch]
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x227/0x2d0
  genl_rcv_msg+0x287/0x490
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x380
  genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
  netlink_unicast+0x439/0x630
  netlink_sendmsg+0x719/0xbf0
  sock_sendmsg+0xe2/0x110
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x890
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x160
  __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x170
  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 RIP: 0033:0x7f957079db07
 Code: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 eb ec ff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 24 ed ff ff 48
 RSP: 002b:00007f956ce35a50 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00002e
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 00007f957079db07
 RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 00007f956ce35ae0 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
 RBP: 00007f956ce35ae0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00007f[PII_REDACTED]
 R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
 R13: 00007f956ce37308 R14: 00007f956ce35f80 R15: 00007f956ce35ae0

 The buggy address belongs to the page:
 page:00000000af2a1d93 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:[PII_REDACTED] index:0x0 pfn:0x112fc7
 flags: 0x17ffffc0000000()
 raw: 0017ffffc0000000 [PII_REDACTED] dead[PII_REDACTED]22 [PII_REDACTED]
 raw: [PII_REDACTED] [PII_REDACTED] 00000000ffffffff [PII_REDACTED]
 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 addr ffff888112fc713c is located in stack of task handler2/1367 at offset 180 in frame:
  ovs_fragment+0x0/0x840 [openvswitch]

 this frame has 2 objects:
  [32, 144) 'ovs_dst'
  [192, 424) 'ovs_rt'

 Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff888112fc7000: f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff888112fc7080: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 >ffff888112fc7100: 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                                         ^
  ffff888112fc7180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff888112fc7200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

for IPv4 packets, ovs_fragment() uses a temporary struct dst_entry. Then,
in the following call graph:

  ip_do_fragment()
    ip_skb_dst_mtu()
      ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward()
        ip_mtu_locked()

the pointer to struct dst_entry is used as pointer to struct rtable: this
turns the access to struct members like rt_mtu_locked into an OOB read in
the stack. Fix this changing the temporary variable used for IPv4 packets
in ovs_fragment(), similarly to what is done for IPv6 few lines below.
CVSS Score: 7.1 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-125
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e17ec1a5eb53fe39cc34fa5592686d5acd0dac; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/490ad0a2390442d0a7b8c00972a83dbb09cab142; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a52fa8ad45b5a593ed416adf[PII_REDACTED]54ff1