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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-36889): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-36889): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/30/2024
Created
08/10/2024
Added
08/09/2024
Modified
08/14/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect Christoph reported a splat hinting at a corrupted snd_una: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 38 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 __mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 38 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-gbbeac67456c9 #59 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events mptcp_worker RIP: 0010:__mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 Code: be 06 01 00 00 bf 06 01 00 00 e8 a8 12 e7 fe e9 00 fe ff ff e8 8e 1a e7 fe 0f b7 ab 3e 02 00 00 e9 d3 fd ff ff e8 7d 1a e7 fe <0f> 0b 4c 8b bb e0 05 00 00 e9 74 fc ff ff e8 6a 1a e7 fe 0f 0b e9 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000013fd48 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881029bd280 RCX: ffffffff82382fe4 RDX: ffff8881003cbd00 RSI: ffffffff823833c3 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888138ba8000 R13: 0000000000000106 R14: ffff8881029bd908 R15: ffff888126560000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f604a5dae38 CR3: 0000000101dac002 CR4: 0000000000170ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> __mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1055 [inline] mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1062 [inline] __mptcp_retrans+0x7f/0x7e0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2615 mptcp_worker+0x434/0x740 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2767 process_one_work+0x1e0/0x560 kernel/workqueue.c:3254 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3335 [inline] worker_thread+0x3c7/0x640 kernel/workqueue.c:3416 kthread+0x121/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x44/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243 </TASK> When fallback to TCP happens early on a client socket, snd_nxt is not yet initialized and any incoming ack will copy such value into snd_una. If the mptcp worker (dumbly) tries mptcp-level re-injection after such ack, that would unconditionally trigger a send buffer cleanup using 'bad' snd_una values. We could easily disable re-injection for fallback sockets, but such dumb behavior already helped catching a few subtle issues and a very low to zero impact in practice. Instead address the issue always initializing snd_nxt (and write_seq, for consistency) at connect time.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1050-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1065-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1066-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1067-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1070-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1070-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-118-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-118-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-118-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-118-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-118-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1009-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-cvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-nolpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

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