CVE-2024-26675: kernel: ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

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

ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K

syzbot triggered a warning [1] in __alloc_pages():

WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp)

Willem fixed a similar issue in commit c0a2a1b0d631 ("ppp: limit MRU to 64K")

Adopt the same sanity check for ppp_async_ioctl(PPPIOCSMRU)

[1]:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11 at mm/page_alloc.c:4543 __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-syzkaller-g41bccc98fb79 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
pstate: 204000c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
 lr : __alloc_pages+0xc8/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4537
sp : ffff800093967580
x29: ffff800093967660 x28: ffff8000939675a0 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff70001272ceb4 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff8000939675c0
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000060820 x21: 1ffff0001272ceb8
x20: ffff8000939675e0 x19: 0000000000000010 x18: ffff800093967120
x17: ffff800083bded5c x16: ffff80008ac97500 x15: 0000000000000005
x14: 1ffff0001272cebc x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff70001272cec1 x10: 1ffff0001272cec0 x9 : 0000000000000001
x8 : ffff800091c91000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 00000000ffffffff x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000020
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff8000939675e0
Call trace:
  __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
  __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]
  alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]
  __kmalloc_large_node+0xbc/0x1fc mm/slub.c:3926
  __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3969 [inline]
  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x418/0x620 mm/slub.c:4001
  kmalloc_reserve+0x17c/0x23c net/core/skbuff.c:590
  __alloc_skb+0x1c8/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:651
  __netdev_alloc_skb+0xb8/0x3e8 net/core/skbuff.c:715
  netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3235 [inline]
  dev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3248 [inline]
  ppp_async_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:863 [inline]
  ppp_asynctty_receive+0x588/0x186c drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:341
  tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x12c/0x15c drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:390
  tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x74/0xac drivers/tty/tty_port.c:37
  receive_buf drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:444 [inline]
  flush_to_ldisc+0x284/0x6e4 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:494
  process_one_work+0x694/0x1204 kernel/workqueue.c:2633
  process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2706 [inline]
  worker_thread+0x938/0xef4 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
  kthread+0x288/0x310 kernel/kthread.c:388
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:860


Affected upstream versions: 2.6.12
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.19.307, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 5.4.269, 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5, 6.8
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 4fdb14ba89faff6e6969a4dffdc8e54235d6e5ed