CVE-2023-52523
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-03-02T21:52:30.351Z
State: PUBLISHED
descriptions: value: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, sockmap: Reject sk_msg egress redirects to non-TCP sockets

With a SOCKMAP/SOCKHASH map and an sk_msg program user can steer messages
sent from one TCP socket (s1) to actually egress from another TCP
socket (s2):

tcp_bpf_sendmsg(s1)		// = sk_prot->sendmsg
  tcp_bpf_send_verdict(s1)	// __SK_REDIRECT case
    tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir(s2)
      tcp_bpf_push_locked(s2)
	tcp_bpf_push(s2)
	  tcp_rate_check_app_limited(s2) // expects tcp_sock
	  tcp_sendmsg_locked(s2)	 // ditto

There is a hard-coded assumption in the call-chain, that the egress
socket (s2) is a TCP socket.

However in commit 122e6c79efe1 ("sock_map: Update sock type checks for
UDP") we have enabled redirects to non-TCP sockets. This was done for the
sake of BPF sk_skb programs. There was no indention to support sk_msg
send-to-egress use case.

As a result, attempts to send-to-egress through a non-TCP socket lead to a
crash due to invalid downcast from sock to tcp_sock:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000002f
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? show_regs+0x60/0x70
  ? __die+0x1f/0x70
  ? page_fault_oops+0x80/0x160
  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2d7/0x800
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x50
  ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x1c0
  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
  ? tcp_tso_segs+0x14/0xa0
  tcp_write_xmit+0x67/0xce0
  __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xf0
  tcp_push+0x107/0x140
  tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x99f/0xbb0
  tcp_bpf_push+0x19d/0x3a0
  tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir+0x55/0xd0
  tcp_bpf_send_verdict+0x407/0x550
  tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x1a1/0x390
  inet_sendmsg+0x6a/0x70
  sock_sendmsg+0x9d/0xc0
  ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x80
  __sys_sendto+0x10e/0x160
  ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x20/0x60
  ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x82/0x110
  __x64_sys_sendto+0x1f/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Reject selecting a non-TCP sockets as redirect target from a BPF sk_msg
program to prevent the crash. When attempted, user will receive an EACCES
error from send/sendto/sendmsg() syscall.
affected: product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: unaffected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions: version: 122e6c79efe1
lessThan: bc8b89b69638
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 122e6c79efe1
lessThan: b8f97e47b6fb
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 122e6c79efe1
lessThan: ded6e448028f
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 122e6c79efe1
lessThan: b80e31baa436
status: affected
versionType: git
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: affected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions: version: 5.13
status: affected
version: 0
lessThan: 5.13
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 5.15.135
lessThanOrEqual: 5.15.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.1.57
lessThanOrEqual: 6.1.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.5.7
lessThanOrEqual: 6.5.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.6
lessThanOrEqual: *
status: unaffected
versionType: original_commit_for_fix
title: bpf, sockmap: Reject sk_msg egress redirects to non-TCP sockets
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