CVE-2021-47546

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47546
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Published
2024-05-24T15:15:19Z
Modified
2024-09-11T04:41:13.901326Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6rulesuppress

The kernel leaks memory when a fib rule is present in IPv6 nftables firewall rules and a suppress_prefix rule is present in the IPv6 routing rules (used by certain tools such as wg-quick). In such scenarios, every incoming packet will leak an allocation in ip6_dst_cache slab cache.

After some hours of bpftrace-ing and source code reading, I tracked down the issue to ca7a03c41753 ("ipv6: do not free rt if FIBLOOKUPNOREF is set on suppress rule").

The problem with that change is that the generic args->flags always have FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF set1 but the IPv6-specific flag RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF might not be, leading to fib6_rule_suppress not decreasing the refcount when needed.

How to reproduce: - Add the following nftables rule to a prerouting chain: meta nfproto ipv6 fib saddr . mark . iif oif missing drop This can be done with: sudo nft create table inet test sudo nft create chain inet test testchain '{ type filter hook prerouting priority filter + 10; policy accept; }' sudo nft add rule inet test testchain meta nfproto ipv6 fib saddr . mark . iif oif missing drop - Run: sudo ip -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0 - Watch sudo slabtop -o | grep ip6_dst_cache to see memory usage increase with every incoming ipv6 packet.

This patch exposes the protocol-specific flags to the protocol specific suppress function, and check the protocol-specific flags argument for RT6LOOKUPFDSTNOREF instead of the generic FIBLOOKUPNOREF when decreasing the refcount, like this.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.84-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.15-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.15-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}