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CVE-2025-38502

bpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storage

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.15.192, 6.1.151, 6.6.105, 6.12.46, 6.16.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storage Lonial reported that an out-of-bounds access in cgroup local storage can be crafted via tail calls. Given two programs each utilizing a cgroup local storage with a different value size, and one program doing a tail call into the other. The verifier will validate each of the indivial programs just fine. However, in the runtime context the bpf_cg_run_ctx holds an bpf_prog_array_item which contains the BPF program as well as any cgroup local storage flavor the program uses. Helpers such as bpf_get_local_storage() pick this up from the runtime context: ctx = container_of(current->bpf_ctx, struct bpf_cg_run_ctx, run_ctx); storage = ctx->prog_item->cgroup_storage[stype]; if (stype == BPF_CGROUP_STORAGE_SHARED) ptr = &READ_ONCE(storage->buf)->data[0]; else ptr = this_cpu_ptr(storage->percpu_buf); For the second program which was called from the originally attached one, this means bpf_get_local_storage() will pick up the former program's map, not its own. With mismatching sizes, this can result in an unintended out-of-bounds access. To fix this issue, we need to extend bpf_map_owner with an array of storage_cookie[] to match on i) the exact maps from the original program if the second program was using bpf_get_local_storage(), or ii) allow the tail call combination if the second program was not using any of the cgroup local storage maps.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in c1c74584b9b4043c52e41fec415226e582d266a3; From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in 66da7cee78590259b400e51a70622ccd41da7bb2; From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in 7acfa07c585e3d7a64654d38f0a5c762877d0b9b; From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in 41688d1fc5d163a6c2c0e95c0419e2cb31a44648; From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in 19341d5c59e8c7e8528e40f8663e99d67810473c; From 7d9c3427894fe70d1347b4820476bf37736d2ff0 · fixed in abad3d0bad72a52137e0c350c59542d75ae4f513

  • Linux Linux

    5.9

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.9.0 · fixed in 5.15.192; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.151; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.105; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.46; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.16.1

References 6

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