tipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING
CVE: CVE-2023-52845
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-476
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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

tipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING

syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
 strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats+0x3ea/0xb50 net/tipc/node.c:2595
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:971 [inline]
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1051 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x11ec/0x1290 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1066
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x371/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545
 genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1075
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1342 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xf47/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1368
 netlink_sendmsg+0x1238/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1910
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:559
 __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:650
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1214 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0xb34/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1885
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

TIPC bearer-related names including link names must be null-terminated
strings. If a link name which is not null-terminated is passed through
netlink, strstr() and similar functions can cause buffer overrun. This
causes the above issue.

This patch changes the nla_policy for bearer-related names from NLA_STRING
to NLA_NUL_STRING. This resolves the issue by ensuring that only
null-terminated strings are accepted as bearer-related names.

syzbot reported similar uninit-value issue related to bearer names [2]. The
root cause of this issue is that a non-null-terminated bearer name was
passed. This patch also resolved this issue.


Remediation:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.