Message-ID: <2025070842-CVE-2025-38236-f58c@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2025 09:35:43 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38236: af_unix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

af_unix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs.

Jann Horn reported a use-after-free in unix_stream_read_generic().

The following sequences reproduce the issue:

  $ python3
  from socket import *
  s1, s2 = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM)
  s1.send(b'x', MSG_OOB)
  s2.recv(1, MSG_OOB)     # leave a consumed OOB skb
  s1.send(b'y', MSG_OOB)
  s2.recv(1, MSG_OOB)     # leave a consumed OOB skb
  s1.send(b'z', MSG_OOB)
  s2.recv(1)              # recv 'z' illegally
  s2.recv(1, MSG_OOB)     # access 'z' skb (use-after-free)

Even though a user reads OOB data, the skb holding the data stays on
the recv queue to mark the OOB boundary and break the next recv().

After the last send() in the scenario above, the sk2's recv queue has
2 leading consumed OOB skbs and 1 real OOB skb.

Then, the following happens during the next recv() without MSG_OOB

  1. unix_stream_read_generic() peeks the first consumed OOB skb
  2. manage_oob() returns the next consumed OOB skb
  3. unix_stream_read_generic() fetches the next not-yet-consumed OOB skb
  4. unix_stream_read_generic() reads and frees the OOB skb

, and the last recv(MSG_OOB) triggers KASAN splat.

The 3. above occurs because of the SO_PEEK_OFF code, which does not
expect unix_skb_len(skb) to be 0, but this is true for such consumed
OOB skbs.

  while (skip >= unix_skb_len(skb)) {
    skip -= unix_skb_len(skb);
    skb = skb_peek_next(skb, &sk->sk_receive_queue);
    ...
  }

In addition to this use-after-free, there is another issue that
ioctl(SIOCATMARK) does not function properly with consecutive consumed
OOB skbs.

So, nothing good comes out of such a situation.

Instead of complicating manage_oob(), ioctl() handling, and the next
ECONNRESET fix by introducing a loop for consecutive consumed OOB skbs,
let's not leave such consecutive OOB unnecessarily.

Now, while receiving an OOB skb in unix_stream_recv_urg(), if its
previous skb is a consumed OOB skb, it is freed.

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor (net/unix/af_unix.c:3027)
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888106ef2904 by task python3/315

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 315 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-00407-gec315832f6f9 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.fc42 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
 print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:409 mm/kasan/report.c:521)
 kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:636)
 unix_stream_read_actor (net/unix/af_unix.c:3027)
 unix_stream_read_generic (net/unix/af_unix.c:2708 net/unix/af_unix.c:2847)
 unix_stream_recvmsg (net/unix/af_unix.c:3048)
 sock_recvmsg (net/socket.c:1063 (discriminator 20) net/socket.c:1085 (discriminator 20))
 __sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2278)
 __x64_sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2291 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2287 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2287 (discriminator 1))
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
RIP: 0033:0x7f8911fcea06
Code: 5d e8 41 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 75 19 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 11 e8 26 ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 45 10 0f 05 <48> 8b 5d f8 c9 c3 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 08
RSP: 002b:00007fffdb0dccb0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fffdb0dcdc8 RCX: 00007f8911fcea06
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007f8911a5e060 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fffdb0dccd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f89119a7d20
R13: ffffffffc4653600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 315:
 kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)
 kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:60 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/common.c:69 (discriminator 1))
 __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:348)
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:250 mm/slub.c:4148 mm/slub.c:4197 mm/slub.c:4249)
 __alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:660 (discriminator 4))
 alloc_skb_with_frags (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1336 net/core/skbuff.c:6668)
 sock_alloc_send_pskb (net/core/sock.c:2993)
 unix_stream_sendmsg (./include/net/sock.h:1847 net/unix/af_unix.c:2256 net/unix/af_unix.c:2418)
 __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:712 (discriminator 20) net/socket.c:727 (discriminator 20) net/socket.c:2226 (discriminator 20))
 __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2233 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2229 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2229 (discriminator 1))
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)

Freed by task 315:
 kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)
 kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:60 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/common.c:69 (discriminator 1))
 kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:579 (discriminator 1))
 __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:271)
 kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:4643 (discriminator 3) mm/slub.c:4745 (discriminator 3))
 unix_stream_read_generic (net/unix/af_unix.c:3010)
 unix_stream_recvmsg (net/unix/af_unix.c:3048)
 sock_recvmsg (net/socket.c:1063 (discriminator 20) net/socket.c:1085 (discriminator 20))
 __sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2278)
 __x64_sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2291 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2287 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2287 (discriminator 1))
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888106ef28c0
 which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224
The buggy address is located 68 bytes inside of
 freed 224-byte region [ffff888106ef28c0, ffff888106ef29a0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888106ef3cc0 pfn:0x106ef2
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x200000000000040(head|node=0|zone=2)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0200000000000040 ffff8881001d28c0 ffffea000422fe00 0000000000000004
raw: ffff888106ef3cc0 0000000080190010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0200000000000040 ffff8881001d28c0 ffffea000422fe00 0000000000000004
head: ffff888106ef3cc0 0000000080190010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0200000000000001 ffffea00041bbc81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888106ef2800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
 ffff888106ef2880: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888106ef2900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888106ef2980: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888106ef2a00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38236 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 and fixed in 6.1.143 with commit a12237865b48a73183df252029ff5065d73d305e
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 and fixed in 6.6.96 with commit fad0a2c16062ac7c606b93166a7ce9d265bab976
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 and fixed in 6.12.36 with commit 61a9ad7b69ce688697e5f63332f03e17725353bc
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 and fixed in 6.15.5 with commit 8db4d2d026e6e3649832bfe23b96c4acff0756db
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 314001f0bf927015e459c9d387d62a231fe93af3 and fixed in 6.16-rc4 with commit 32ca245464e1479bfea8592b9db227fdc1641705

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-2025-38236
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/unix/af_unix.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/a12237865b48a73183df252029ff5065d73d305e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fad0a2c16062ac7c606b93166a7ce9d265bab976
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a9ad7b69ce688697e5f63332f03e17725353bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8db4d2d026e6e3649832bfe23b96c4acff0756db
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ca245464e1479bfea8592b9db227fdc1641705

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