Bug 1220462 (CVE-2021-46913)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2021-46913: kernel-source,kernel-source-azure,kernel-source-rt: memcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	meissner, thomas.leroy, vasant.karasulli
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/395257/
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-02-27 14:24:00 UTC

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

netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template

memcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements. Use
nft_expr_clone() to initialize the connlimit expression list, otherwise
connlimit garbage collector crashes when walking on the list head copy.

[  493.064656] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables]
[  493.064685] RIP: 0010:find_or_evict+0x5a/0x90 [nf_conncount]
[  493.064694] Code: 2b 43 40 83 f8 01 77 0d 48 c7 c0 f5 ff ff ff 44 39 63 3c 75 df 83 6d 18 01 48 8b 43 08 48 89 de 48 8b 13 48 8b 3d ee 2f 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 03 48 83
[  493.064699] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000417dc0 EFLAGS: 00010297
[  493.064704] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888134f38410 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  493.064708] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888134f38410 RDI: ffff888100060cc0
[  493.064711] RBP: ffff88812ce594a8 R08: ffff888134f38438 R09: 00000000ebb9025c
[  493.064714] R10: ffffffff8219f838 R11: 0000000000000017 R12: 0000000000000001
[  493.064718] R13: ffffffff82146740 R14: ffff888134f38410 R15: 0000000000000000
[  493.064721] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  493.064725] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  493.064729] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001330aa002 CR4: 00000000001706e0
[  493.064733] Call Trace:
[  493.064737]  nf_conncount_gc_list+0x8f/0x150 [nf_conncount]
[  493.064746]  nft_rhash_gc+0x106/0x390 [nf_tables]

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-46913
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46913
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d8de3c226574a3ddb8b87d0c152028d1bafef4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d8f9065830e526c83199186c5f56a6514f457d2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e51ff3ffc316377cca21de8b80404eed0c37b3c3

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2024-02-27 14:24:44 UTC

SLE15-SP6, cve/linux-5.14 and stable have the patch. Other branches not affected.
Nothing to do except a changelog update

Comment 3 Andrea Mattiazzo 2024-06-12 07:48:57 UTC

All done, closing.