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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52986): linux vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52986): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/27/2025
Created
04/02/2025
Added
04/01/2025
Modified
04/03/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Check for any of tcp_bpf_prots when cloning a listener A listening socket linked to a sockmap has its sk_prot overridden. It points to one of the struct proto variants in tcp_bpf_prots. The variant depends on the socket's family and which sockmap programs are attached. A child socket cloned from a TCP listener initially inherits their sk_prot. But before cloning is finished, we restore the child's proto to the listener's original non-tcp_bpf_prots one. This happens in tcp_create_openreq_child -> tcp_bpf_clone. Today, in tcp_bpf_clone we detect if the child's proto should be restored by checking only for the TCP_BPF_BASE proto variant. This is not correct. The sk_prot of listening socket linked to a sockmap can point to to any variant in tcp_bpf_prots. If the listeners sk_prot happens to be not the TCP_BPF_BASE variant, then the child socket unintentionally is left if the inherited sk_prot by tcp_bpf_clone. This leads to issues like infinite recursion on close [1], because the child state is otherwise not set up for use with tcp_bpf_prot operations. Adjust the check in tcp_bpf_clone to detect all of tcp_bpf_prots variants. Note that it wouldn't be sufficient to check the socket state when overriding the sk_prot in tcp_bpf_update_proto in order to always use the TCP_BPF_BASE variant for listening sockets. Since commit b8b8315e39ff ("bpf, sockmap: Remove unhash handler for BPF sockmap usage") it is possible for a socket to transition to TCP_LISTEN state while already linked to a sockmap, e.g. connect() -> insert into map -> connect(AF_UNSPEC) -> listen(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000073b14905ef2e7401@google.com/

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-bluefield
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iot-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency-hwe-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-riscv-5-15

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