CVE-2019-18198 (published 2019-10-18T22:15Z)

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.4, a reference count usage error in the fib6_rule_suppress() function in the fib6 suppression feature of net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c, when handling the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag, can be exploited by a local attacker to corrupt memory, aka CID-ca7a03c41753.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-772
cwe_name: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
description: The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.
extended_description: When a resource is not released after use, it can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by causing the allocation of resources without triggering their release. Frequently-affected resources include memory, CPU, disk space, power or battery, etc.
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Jason A. Donenfeld
author_date: 2019-09-24 16:01:28+02:00
msg: ipv6: do not free rt if FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF is set on suppress rule

Commit 7d9e5f422150 removed references from certain dsts, but accounting
for this never translated down into the fib6 suppression code. This bug
was triggered by WireGuard users who use wg-quick(8), which uses the
"suppress-prefix" directive to ip-rule(8) for routing all of their
internet traffic without routing loops. The test case added here
causes the reference underflow by causing packets to evaluate a suppress
rule.

Fixes: 7d9e5f422150 ("ipv6: convert major tx path to use RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: fib6_rules.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ static bool fib6_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg
 	return false;
 
 suppress_route:
-	ip6_rt_put(rt);
+	if (!(arg->flags & FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF))
+		ip6_rt_put(rt);
 	return true;
 }
 

programming_language: C
filename: fib_tests.sh
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ret=0
 ksft_skip=4
 
 # all tests in this script. Can be overridden with -t option
-TESTS="unregister down carrier nexthop ipv6_rt ipv4_rt ipv6_addr_metric ipv4_addr_metric ipv6_route_metrics ipv4_route_metrics ipv4_route_v6_gw rp_filter"
+TESTS="unregister down carrier nexthop suppress ipv6_rt ipv4_rt ipv6_addr_metric ipv4_addr_metric ipv6_route_metrics ipv4_route_metrics ipv4_route_v6_gw rp_filter"
 
 VERBOSE=0
 PAUSE_ON_FAIL=no
@@ -616,6 +616,20 @@ fib_nexthop_test()
 	cleanup
 }
 
+fib_suppress_test()
+{
+	$IP link add dummy1 type dummy
+	$IP link set dummy1 up
+	$IP -6 route add default dev dummy1
+	$IP -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0
+	ping -f -c 1000 -W 1 1234::1 || true
+	$IP -6 rule del table main suppress_prefixlength 0
+	$IP link del dummy1
+
+	# If we got here without crashing, we're good.
+	return 0
+}
+
 ################################################################################
 # Tests on route add and replace
 
@@ -1593,6 +1607,7 @@ do
 	fib_carrier_test|carrier)	fib_carrier_test;;
 	fib_rp_filter_test|rp_filter)	fib_rp_filter_test;;
 	fib_nexthop_test|nexthop)	fib_nexthop_test;;
+	fib_suppress_test|suppress)	fib_suppress_test;;
 	ipv6_route_test|ipv6_rt)	ipv6_route_test;;
 	ipv4_route_test|ipv4_rt)	ipv4_route_test;;
 	ipv6_addr_metric)		ipv6_addr_metric_test;;

programming_language: Shell