CVE-2021-46912

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control readonly in non-init netns Currently, tcp_allowed_congestion_control is global and writable; writing to it in any net namespace will leak into all other net namespaces. tcp_available_congestion_control and tcp_allowed_congestion_control are the only sysctls in ipv4_net_table (the per-netns sysctl table) with a NULL data pointer; their handlers (proc_tcp_available_congestion_control and proc_allowed_congestion_control) have no other way of referencing a struct net. Thus, they operate globally. Because ipv4_net_table does not use designated initializers, there is no easy way to fix up this one "bad" table entry. However, the data pointer updating logic shouldn't be applied to NULL pointers anyway, so we instead force these entries to be read-only. These sysctls used to exist in ipv4_table (init-net only), but they were moved to the per-net ipv4_net_table, presumably without realizing that tcp_allowed_congestion_control was writable and thus introduced a leak. Because the intent of that commit was only to know (i.e. read) "which congestion algorithms are available or allowed", this read-only solution should be sufficient. The logic added in recent commit 31c4d2f160eb: ("net: Ensure net namespace isolation of sysctls") does not and cannot check for NULL data pointers, because other table entries (e.g. /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/) have .data=NULL but use other methods (.extra2) to access the struct net.
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OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

17 Apr 2024, 16:53

Type Values Removed Values Added
CWE CWE-476
First Time Linux linux Kernel
Linux
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ccdf1bed140820240e383ba0accc474ffc7f006 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ccdf1bed140820240e383ba0accc474ffc7f006 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35d7491e2f77ce480097cabcaf93ed409e916e12 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35d7491e2f77ce480097cabcaf93ed409e916e12 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97684f0970f6e112926de631fdd98d9693c7e5c1 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97684f0970f6e112926de631fdd98d9693c7e5c1 - Patch
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

27 Feb 2024, 14:20

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-02-27 07:15

Updated : 2024-04-17 16:53


NVD link : CVE-2021-46912

Mitre link : CVE-2021-46912

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-46912


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference