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LIN1021-12854 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2024-56650

Created: Dec 27, 2024    Updated: May 27, 2025
Resolved Date: May 21, 2025
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Fix Version: 10.21.20.25
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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

netfilter: x_tables: fix LED ID check in led_tg_check()

Syzbot has reported the following BUG detected by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strlen+0x58/0x70
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881022da0c8 by task repro/5879
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360
 ? __pfx_dump_stack_lvl+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx__printk+0x10/0x10
 ? _printk+0xd5/0x120
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
 print_report+0x169/0x550
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x45f/0x530
 ? __phys_addr+0xba/0x170
 ? strlen+0x58/0x70
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180
 ? strlen+0x58/0x70
 strlen+0x58/0x70
 kstrdup+0x20/0x80
 led_tg_check+0x18b/0x3c0
 xt_check_target+0x3bb/0xa40
 ? __pfx_xt_check_target+0x10/0x10
 ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x6e4/0x830
 ? nft_target_init+0x174/0xc30
 nft_target_init+0x82d/0xc30
 ? __pfx_nft_target_init+0x10/0x10
 ? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
 ? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xb0
 ? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
 ? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
 ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x21a/0x400
 nf_tables_newrule+0x1860/0x2980
 ? __pfx_nf_tables_newrule+0x10/0x10
 ? __nla_parse+0x40/0x60
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x14e5/0x2ab0
 ? __pfx_validate_chain+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv+0x10/0x10
 ? __lock_acquire+0x1384/0x2050
 ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x2e/0x1b0
 ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
 ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x2e/0x1b0
 netlink_unicast+0x7f8/0x990
 ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
 ? __check_object_size+0x48e/0x900
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8e4/0xcb0
 ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
 ? aa_sock_msg_perm+0x91/0x160
 ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
 __sock_sendmsg+0x223/0x270
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x52a/0x7e0
 ? __pfx_____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
 __sys_sendmsg+0x292/0x380
 ? __pfx___sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x43d/0x780
 ? __pfx_lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x10/0x10
 ? exc_page_fault+0x590/0x8c0
 ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x230
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
 </TASK>

Since an invalid (without '\0' byte at all) byte sequence may be passed
from userspace, add an extra check to ensure that such a sequence is
rejected as possible ID and so never passed to 'kstrdup()' and further.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2024-56650 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56650)

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