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CVE-2021-47517

ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered

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Descriptions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered

There is a short period between a net device starts to be unregistered
and when it is actually gone. In that time frame ethtool operations
could still be performed, which might end up in unwanted or undefined
behaviours[1].

Do not allow ethtool operations after a net device starts its
unregistration. This patch targets the netlink part as the ioctl one
isn't affected: the reference to the net device is taken and the
operation is executed within an rtnl lock section and the net device
won't be found after unregister.

[1] For example adding Tx queues after unregister ends up in NULL
pointer exceptions and UaFs, such as:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_get+0x14/0x90
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801961248c by task ethtool/755

CPU: 0 PID: 755 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #778
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x72
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140
kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
kobject_get+0x14/0x90
kobject_add_internal+0x3d1/0x450
kobject_init_and_add+0xba/0xf0
netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0xcf/0x200
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0xb4/0x310
veth_set_channels+0x1c3/0x550
ethnl_set_channels+0x524/0x610

En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: ethtool: no realiza operaciones en dispositivos de red que se están dando de baja. Hay un breve período entre que un dispositivo de red comienza a darse de baja y cuando realmente desaparece. En ese período aún se podrían realizar operaciones de ethtool, lo que podría terminar en comportamientos no deseados o indefinidos[1]. No permita operaciones de ethtool después de que un dispositivo de red inicie su cancelación del registro. Este parche apunta a la parte netlink ya que la parte ioctl no se ve afectada: se toma la referencia al dispositivo de red y la operación se ejecuta dentro de una sección de bloqueo rtnl y el dispositivo de red no se encontrará después de cancelar el registro. [1] Por ejemplo, agregar colas de Tx después de cancelar el registro termina en excepciones de puntero NULL y UaF, como: ERROR: KASAN: use-after-free en kobject_get+0x14/0x90 Lectura de tamaño 1 en la dirección ffff88801961248c mediante la tarea ethtool/755 CPU : 0 PID: 755 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #778 Nombre de hardware: PC estándar QEMU (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/014 Seguimiento de llamadas: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x72 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140 kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b kobject_get+0x14/0x90 kobject_add_internal+0x3d1/0x450 kobject_init_and_add+0xba/0xf0 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0xcf/0x200 netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0xb4/0x310 veth_set_channels+0x1c3/0x550 ethnl_set_channels+0x524/ 0x610

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  • 2024-05-24 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-05-24 CVE Published
  • 2024-05-25 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
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Linux
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>= 5.6 < 5.10.87
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Linux
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>= 5.6 < 5.15.8
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Linux
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>= 5.6 < 5.16
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