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CVE-2024-26640MEDIUM
Linux Linux — tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy
  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   L   L   L   N  U  N  N  H    5.5   .0024   15.4     —
AFFECTED
  Product  Versions                                    Fixed
  Linux    93ab6cc69162775201587cc9da00d5016dc890e2 –  —
  Linux    4.18 –                                      5.10.210
TIMELINE
  Feb 19  Reserved by Linux
  Mar 18  Published (CNA: Linux)
  Aug 4   RESCORED — CVE-2024-26640 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
CNA: Linux · CVSS v3.1 · 7 references · NVD status: Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy TCP rx zerocopy intent is to map pages initially allocated from NIC drivers, not pages owned by a fs. This patch adds to can_map_frag() these additional checks: - Page must not be a compound one. - page->mapping must be NULL. This fixes the panic reported by ZhangPeng. syzbot was able to loopback packets built with sendfile(), mapping pages owned by an ext4 file to TCP rx zerocopy. r3 = socket$inet_tcp(0x2, 0x1, 0x0) mmap(&(0x7f0000ff9000/0x4000)=nil, 0x4000, 0x0, 0x12, r3, 0x0) r4 = socket$inet_tcp(0x2, 0x1, 0x0) bind$inet(r4, &(0x7f0000000000)={0x2, 0x4e24, @multicast1}, 0x10) connect$inet(r4, &(0x7f00000006c0)={0x2, 0x4e24, @empty}, 0x10) r5 = openat$dir(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f00000000c0)='./file0\x00', 0x181e42, 0x0) fallocate(r5, 0x0, 0x0, 0x85b8) sendfile(r4, r5, 0x0, 0x8ba0) getsockopt$inet_tcp_TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE(r4, 0x6, 0x23, &(0x7f00000001c0)={&(0x7f0000ffb000/0x3000)=nil, 0x3000, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, &(0x7f0000000440)=0x40) r6 = openat$dir(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f00000000c0)='./file0\x00', 0x181e42, 0x0)

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
DateEventDetail
February 19, 2024ReservedReserved by Linux
March 18, 2024PublishedPublished (CNA: Linux)
August 4, 2026RESCOREDRESCORED — CVE-2024-26640 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).

Affected

Affected products and packages — 2 rows
VendorProduct / PackageEcosystemVersion introducedFixed
LinuxLinux93ab6cc69162775201587cc9da00d5016dc890e2
LinuxLinux4.185.10.210

References (7)

Related

Authoritative record: CVE-2024-26640 at cve.org

Vendors: linux

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