UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50035: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: fix pppasyncencode() illegal access syzbot reported an issue in pppasyncencode() [1] In this case, pppoesendmsg() is called with a zero size. Then pppasyncencode() is called with an empty skb. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pppasyncencode drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:545 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pppasyncpush+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:675 pppasyncencode drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:545 [inline] pppasyncpush+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:675 pppasyncsend+0x130/0x1b0 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:634 pppchannelbridgeinput drivers/net/ppp/pppgeneric.c:2280 [inline] pppinput+0x1f1/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/pppgeneric.c:2304 pppoercvcore+0x1d3/0x720 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379 skbacklogrcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1113 releasesock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3072 releasesock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3626 pppoesendmsg+0x2b8/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:903 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] socksendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 syssendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 syssendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 dosyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] sesyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] x64syssendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64syscall+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls64.h:308 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f Uninit was created at: slabpostallochook mm/slub.c:4092 [inline] slaballocnode mm/slub.c:4135 [inline] kmemcacheallocnodenoprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4187 kmallocreserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:587 allocskb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:678 allocskb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline] sockwmalloc+0xfe/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:2732 pppoesendmsg+0x3a7/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:867 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] socksendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 syssendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 syssendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 dosyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] sesyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] x64syssendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64syscall+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls64.h:308 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5411 Comm: syz.1.14 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller-00165-g360c1f1f24c6 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who would need access to exploit this issue?
The vulnerability is rated as locally exploitable and requires low privileges. No user interaction is required.
Which Ubuntu kernel package families are identified as affected?
The listed package families are linux, linux-fips, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp, and linux-gcp-fips.
What runtime condition reaches the vulnerable code path?
The reported path begins when pppoe_sendmsg() is called with a zero-size message, resulting in an empty skb being passed to ppp_async_encode(). The observed result was an uninitialized-value report in the PPP asynchronous encoding path.