net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload
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- Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.57, 7.2.11
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Summary
The Linux kernel's traffic control (net/sched) text-matching classifier extension, em_text, is affected. An unprivileged-in-namespace user with network admin rights can supply a malformed algorithm name that lacks a terminating null byte, causing the kernel to read past the buffer and leak adjacent kernel memory into a module-loading command.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload This is a follow-up to commit 9c572a83037a ("net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump()"), which zero-initialised the dump-side struct. Sashiko pointed at a pre-existing bug that exposed the change-side input-validation gap open. em_text_change() casts the raw netlink attribute payload to struct tcf_em_text and passes conf->algo, a 16-byte array with no enforced NUL terminator, to textsearch_prepare(). On the TS_AUTOLOAD retry textsearch_prepare() calls request_module("ts_%s", algo); vsnprintf() walks %s until it finds a NUL, so an algo[] with no NUL reads past the array into the adjacent struct fields and payload and feeds those bytes to the usermode helper command line. This is an out-of-bounds read and a kernel memory disclosure. Reject the attribute when no NUL exists within TC_EM_TEXT_ALGOSIZ bytes, matching the check xt_string has had since 3ab720881b6e. Conditions to recreate the bug: • CAP_NET_ADMIN on the target netns (namespace-local via unshare -Urn is enough) • install clsact on an interface, then add a basic filter with one text ematch whose algo[] is 16 bytes with no NUL (e.g. "A"*16) and pattern_len at least 1 • the add fails with -ENOENT and the kernel invokes modprobe with a module name made of "ts_" plus the 16 bytes and the adjacent payload
Timeline
- CVE published
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Affected versions
- Linux Linux
Version range not reported
- Linux Linux
2.6.13
- KernelLinux
From 2.6.13 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.113; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.57; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.11
References 8
git.kernel.org
- stable/c/64153f1dd14dabfd4e79bf506bb5b5d66f7b42eb
- stable/c/b62fb105961b677418cbc0a0a8837a41735729ec
- stable/c/b4da5c85cd701066ff429727fb61b84bde8bcce2
- stable/c/00bcc303000bac524d62eed054d77372b38ace0f
- stable/c/22182f91c6703af6e9832cffe6d22b381031cb5a
- stable/c/85e5512369d4fe6e5f2c43712d9f9e01d4ae8437
- stable/c/b627c6ba20be20334338229b4820baacb9d96826
- stable/c/c9728fcf2e7fb4a7a8d08ebd9524c3b02ae1a021