CVE-2024-36927: kernel: ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb()
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-99 (Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection'))
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: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

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

ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb()

KMSAN reported uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb() [1].  __ip_make_skb()
tests HDRINCL to know if the skb has icmphdr. However, HDRINCL can cause a
race condition. If calling setsockopt(2) with IP_HDRINCL changes HDRINCL
while __ip_make_skb() is running, the function will access icmphdr in the
skb even if it is not included. This causes the issue reported by KMSAN.

Check FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH on fl4->flowi4_flags instead of testing HDRINCL
on the socket.

Also, fl4->fl4_icmp_type and fl4->fl4_icmp_code are not initialized. These
are union in struct flowi4 and are implicitly initialized by
flowi4_init_output(), but we should not rely on specific union layout.

Initialize these explicitly in raw_sendmsg().

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ip_make_skb+0x2b74/0x2d20 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481
 __ip_make_skb+0x2b74/0x2d20 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481
 ip_finish_skb include/net/ip.h:243 [inline]
 ip_push_pending_frames+0x4c/0x5c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1508
 raw_sendmsg+0x2381/0x2690 net/ipv4/raw.c:654
 inet_sendmsg+0x27b/0x2a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x274/0x3c0 net/socket.c:745
 __sys_sendto+0x62c/0x7b0 net/socket.c:2191
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x130/0x200 net/socket.c:2199
 do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x1f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3804 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3845 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5f6/0xc50 mm/slub.c:3888
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13c/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:577
 __alloc_skb+0x35a/0x7c0 net/core/skbuff.c:668
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1318 [inline]
 __ip_append_data+0x49ab/0x68c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1128
 ip_append_data+0x1e7/0x260 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1365
 raw_sendmsg+0x22b1/0x2690 net/ipv4/raw.c:648
 inet_sendmsg+0x27b/0x2a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x274/0x3c0 net/socket.c:745
 __sys_sendto+0x62c/0x7b0 net/socket.c:2191
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x130/0x200 net/socket.c:2199
 do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x1f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

CPU: 1 PID: 15709 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.8.0-11567-gb3603fcb79b1 #25
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014


Affected upstream versions: 5.10.180 < 5.10.248, 5.15.111 < 5.15.198, 6.1.28 < 6.1.140, 4.14.315 < 4.15, 4.19.283 < 4.20, 5.4.243 < 5.5, 6.2.15 < 6.3, 6.3.2 < 6.4, 6.4
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.15, 4.20, 5.10.248, 5.15.198, 5.5, 6.1.140, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6.31, 6.8.10, 6.9
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 88c66f1879f322f11de34d37b2d3d87497afdcb6