CVE-2024-50128 (Moderate severity, published 2024-11-04)
CVSS score: 7.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
CWE: CWE-125
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: wwan: fix global oob in wwan_rtnl_policy

The variable wwan_rtnl_link_ops assign a *bigger* maxtype which leads to
a global out-of-bounds read when parsing the netlink attributes. Exactly
same bug cause as the oob fixed in commit b33fb5b801c6 ("net: qualcomm:
rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy").

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:388 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x19d7/0x29a0 lib/nlattr.c:603
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff8b09cb60 by task syz.1.66276/323862

CPU: 0 PID: 323862 Comm: syz.1.66276 Not tainted 6.1.70 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x177/0x231 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
 print_report+0x14f/0x750 mm/kasan/report.c:395
 kasan_report+0x139/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:495
 validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:388 [inline]
 __nla_validate_parse+0x19d7/0x29a0 lib/nlattr.c:603
 __nla_parse+0x3c/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:700
 nla_parse_nested_deprecated include/net/netlink.h:1269 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3514 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x7bc/0x1fd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3623
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x794/0xef0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6122
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2508
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1326 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74b/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1352
 netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xb90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2499
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2553
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x19e/0x270 net/socket.c:2589
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f67b19a24ad
RSP: 002b:00007f67b17febb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f67b1b45f80 RCX: 00007f67b19a24ad
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020005e40 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f67b1a1e01d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffd2513764f R14: 00007ffd251376e0 R15: 00007f67b17fed40
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the variable:
 wwan_rtnl_policy+0x20/0x40

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00002c2700 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xb09c
flags: 0xfff00000001000(reserved|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000001000 ffffea00002c2708 ffffea00002c2708 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner info is not present (never set?)

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffffffff8b09ca00: 05 f9 f9 f9 05 f9 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9
 ffffffff8b09ca80: 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 03 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>ffffffff8b09cb00: 00 00 00 00 05 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9
                                                       ^
 ffffffff8b09cb80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

According to the comment of `nla_parse_nested_deprecated`, use correct size
`IFLA_WWAN_MAX` here to fix this issue.