CVE-2024-50163

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Make sure internal and UAPI bpf_redirect flags don't overlap The bpf_redirect_info is shared between the SKB and XDP redirect paths, and the two paths use the same numeric flag values in the ri->flags field (specifically, BPF_F_BROADCAST == BPF_F_NEXTHOP). This means that if skb bpf_redirect_neigh() is used with a non-NULL params argument and, subsequently, an XDP redirect is performed using the same bpf_redirect_info struct, the XDP path will get confused and end up crashing, which syzbot managed to trigger. With the stack-allocated bpf_redirect_info, the structure is no longer shared between the SKB and XDP paths, so the crash doesn't happen anymore. However, different code paths using identically-numbered flag values in the same struct field still seems like a bit of a mess, so this patch cleans that up by moving the flag definitions together and redefining the three flags in BPF_F_REDIRECT_INTERNAL to not overlap with the flags used for XDP. It also adds a BUILD_BUG_ON() check to make sure the overlap is not re-introduced by mistake.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cec288e05ceac9a0d3a3a1fd279534b11844c826

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1e428533845d48828bd3875c0e92e8565b9962

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/314dbee9fe4f5cee36435465de52c988d7caa466

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca5ed4be8e8bfbfb9bd97845af596bab7192d3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09d88791c7cd888d5195c84733caf9183dcfbd16

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-07

Updated: 2024-11-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium