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Linux Linux — net/sched: taprio: proper TCA_TAPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX check
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0028 20.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux a54fc09e4cba3004443aa05979f8c678196c8226 – —
Linux 6.1 – 6.1.83
TIMELINE
Feb 19 Reserved by Linux
Apr 10 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-26815 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: taprio: proper TCA_TAPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX check
taprio_parse_tc_entry() is not correctly checking
TCA_TAPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX attribute:
int tc; // Signed value
tc = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_TAPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX]);
if (tc >= TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "TC entry index out of range");
return -ERANGE;
}
syzbot reported that it could fed arbitary negative values:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_taprio.c:1722:18
shift exponent -2147418108 is negative
CPU: 0 PID: 5066 Comm: syz-executor367 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-syzkaller-00136-gc8a5c731fd12 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2e0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:217 [inline]
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c7/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:386
taprio_parse_tc_entry net/sched/sch_taprio.c:1722 [inline]
taprio_parse_tc_entries net/sched/sch_taprio.c:1768 [inline]
taprio_change+0xb87/0x57d0 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:1877
taprio_init+0x9da/0xc80 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:2134
qdisc_create+0x9d4/0x1190 net/sched/sch_api.c:1355
tc_modify_qdisc+0xa26/0x1e40 net/sched/sch_api.c:1776
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x885/0x1040 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6617
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e3/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1341 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7ea/0x980 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1367
netlink_sendmsg+0xa3b/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1908
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x221/0x270 net/socket.c:745
____sys_sendmsg+0x525/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2638 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x2b0/0x3a0 net/socket.c:2667
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x240
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77
RIP: 0033:0x7f1b2dea3759
Code: 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 d7 19 00 00 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd4de452f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1b2def0390 RCX: 00007f1b2dea3759
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200007c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000555500000000 R09: 0000555500000000
R10: 0000555500000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd4de45340
R13: 00007ffd4de45310 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007ffd4de45340
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 19, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| April 10, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-26815 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | a54fc09e4cba3004443aa05979f8c678196c8226 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.1 | 6.1.83 |
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