Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
8.1
EPSS
0.31%
AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

The Zephyr Bluetooth controller ISO Adaptation Layer (subsys/bluetooth/controller/llsw/isoal.c) fails to validate the length field of a framed ISO PDU start segment. Per the Bluetooth specification a start segment (sc=0) always carries a 3-byte timeoffset, so its segment-header len must be at least PDUISOSEGTIMEOFFSETSIZE (3). isoalchecksegheader() accepted start segments with len < 3 as valid, and isoalrxframedconsume() then computed length = seghdr->len - 3 in a uint8t, underflowing to 253-255 when len is 0-2. That oversized length is passed to isoalrxappendtosdu(), whose copy is clamped only against the destination SDU buffer size, not the source PDU length, so up to ~255 bytes of controller memory beyond the received PDU are copied (via sinksduwritehci()/netbufaddmem) into an HCI ISO data packet and delivered to the host. The PDU and its segment headers are entirely attacker-controlled and arrive over the air, reachable through both the CIS and BIS-sync HCI data paths (hcidriver.c) and the vendor data path (ulliso.c), so a remote CIS peer or a broadcaster the device is synced to can trigger an out-of-bounds read causing information disclosure to the host and potential denial of service (faults or malformed oversized HCI ISO packets). The flaw affects all Zephyr releases since framed ISO reception was introduced in v3.0.0. The fix rejects sc=0 segments with len < 3 in isoalchecksegheader() and adds a guard before the subtraction in isoalrxframedconsume().

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Use After Free
AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Zephyr's IPv6 Neighbor Discovery send paths (netipv6sendna, netipv6sendns, netipv6sendrs in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c) updated the per-interface ICMP-sent statistics by calling netpktiface(pkt) after netsenddata(pkt) had already returned successfully. On the success path the network stack owns and releases the packet's reference (the L2/driver send unrefs it, e.g. ethernetsend -> netpktunref), so for a freshly allocated packet with refcount 1 the netpkt slab block can be freed before the statistics line runs (synchronously when no TX queue thread is configured, or via a concurrent TX thread otherwise).

The subsequent netpktiface(pkt) reads pkt->iface from the freed slab block, and with CONFIGNETSTATISTICSPERINTERFACE enabled that loaded pointer is dereferenced to increment iface->stats.icmp.sent, a use-after-free (CWE-416). If the slab block was reallocated in the meantime the read/increment targets unrelated or attacker-influenced memory, yielding corrupted statistics, a fault/crash (denial of service), or potential limited memory corruption.

The vulnerable Neighbor Advertisement path is reachable by any unauthenticated on-link node simply by sending ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitations to a Zephyr node with native IPv6 enabled (handlensinput -> netipv6sendna).

Affected from v3.3.0 through v4.4.0; the fix uses the already-available iface argument instead of touching the sent packet. Configurations without per-interface statistics dereference only a global counter and are not affected by the memory-safety aspect.

First published (updated )

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