CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50163
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.170)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.115)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.59)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09d88791c7cd888d5195c84733caf9183dcfbd16 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fca5ed4be8e8bfbfb9bd97845af596bab7192d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/314dbee9fe4f5cee36435465de52c988d7caa466 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1e428533845d48828bd3875c0e92e8565b9962 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cec288e05ceac9a0d3a3a1fd279534b11844c826 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org