vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47496): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 22, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Sep 25, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls
sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls
doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code.
For instance,
[kworker]
tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>)
tls_err_abort(.., err)
sk->sk_err = err;
[task]
splice_from_pipe_feed
...
tls_sw_do_sendpage
if (sk->sk_err) {
ret = -sk->sk_err; // ret is positive
splice_from_pipe_feed (continued)
ret = actor(...) // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes
// written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and
// sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus
// addresses computed in later calls to actor()
Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code
consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in
a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it
really does only warn once.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2021-47496
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47496
- CWE-787
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cfd5159f314d6b304d030363650b06a2299cbb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41473543f75f7dbc5d605007e6f883f1bd13b9a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3dec7e7ace38224f82cf83f0049159d067c2e19
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47496
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