linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47451: netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer

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Message-ID: <2024052242-CVE-2021-47451-72c7@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 08:19:54 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47451: netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value

Description
===========

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

netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value

Currently, when the rule related to IDLETIMER is added, idletimer_tg timer
structure is initialized by kmalloc on executing idletimer_tg_create
function. However, in this process timer->timer_type is not defined to
a specific value. Thus, timer->timer_type has garbage value and it occurs
kernel panic. So, this commit fixes the panic by initializing
timer->timer_type using kzalloc instead of kmalloc.

Test commands:
    # iptables -A OUTPUT -j IDLETIMER --timeout 1 --label test
    $ cat /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/test
      Killed

Splat looks like:
    BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
    Read of size 8 at addr 0000002e8c7bc4c8 by task cat/917
    CPU: 12 PID: 917 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.14.0+ #3 79940a339f71eb14fc81aee1757a20d5bf13eb0e
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
     dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x9c
     kasan_report.cold+0x112/0x117
     ? alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
     __asan_load8+0x86/0xb0
     alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70
     idletimer_tg_show+0xe5/0x19b [xt_IDLETIMER 11219304af9316a21bee5ba9d58f76a6b9bccc6d]
     dev_attr_show+0x3c/0x60
     sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x11d/0x1f0
     ? device_remove_bin_file+0x20/0x20
     kernfs_seq_show+0xa4/0xb0
     seq_read_iter+0x29c/0x750
     kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x25a/0x2c0
     ? __fsnotify_parent+0x3d1/0x570
     ? iov_iter_init+0x70/0x90
     new_sync_read+0x2a7/0x3d0
     ? __x64_sys_llseek+0x230/0x230
     ? rw_verify_area+0x81/0x150
     vfs_read+0x17b/0x240
     ksys_read+0xd9/0x180
     ? vfs_write+0x460/0x460
     ? do_syscall_64+0x16/0xc0
     ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x120
     __x64_sys_read+0x43/0x50
     do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
    RIP: 0033:0x7f0cdc819142
    Code: c0 e9 c2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 3a ca 0a 00 e8 f5 19 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24
    RSP: 002b:00007fff28eee5b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
    RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f0cdc819142
    RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f0cdc032000 RDI: 0000000000000003
    RBP: 00007f0cdc032000 R08: 00007f0cdc031010 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005607e9ee31f0
    R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47451 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 68983a354a65 and fixed in 5.10.76 with commit 2a670c323055
	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 68983a354a65 and fixed in 5.14.15 with commit cae7cab804c9
	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 68983a354a65 and fixed in 5.15 with commit 902c0b188752

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-47451
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a670c323055282c9b72794a491d53cef86bbeaf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cae7cab804c943d723d52724a3aeb07a3f4a2650
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/902c0b1887522a099aa4e1e6b4b476c2fe5dd13e