Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netlink: Annotate accesses to nlk-cbrunning Both netlinkrecvmsg and netlinknativeseqshow read nlk-cbrunning without locking it. Use READONCE in those functions. Add corresponding WRITEONCE to netlinkdump and netlinkdumpstart...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netlink: Do not hard code the device address length in fdb dumps. syzbot reports that some netdev devices do not have a six-byte address. Replace ETHALEN with dev-addrlen. 1 In cases where dev-addrlen = 4 BUG: KMSAN:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: Do not perform operations on net devices that are not yet registered. There is a short period between when a net device starts to be unregistered and when it is actually removed from the list of available devices. During...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

A flaw was discovered in Open vSwitch, where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may lead to a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ksmbd: fixed the global out-of-bounds read in ksmbdnlpolicy. Similar to the reported issue see commit b33fb5b801c6 “net: qualcomm: rmnet: fixed global out-of-bounds in rmnetpolicy”, my local fuzzer discovered another global...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: - net: genl: fixed a memory leak in the error path during policy dumping. - If the construction of the policy array fails when recording non-first policies, we need to unwind the process. - The netlinkpolicydumpaddpolicy...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: Fixed an use-after-free error during socket cleanup. A use-after-free error can occur if the xskdiag interface is used after the socket has been unbound from the device. This can happen either due to the socket being closed ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: The function genlunregisterfamily is called first in nbdcleanup. Otherwise, there may be a race between the removal of the module and the handling of the netlink command, which can lead to an oops as shown below: BUG: Kernel...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: Hold the reference to the backbone gateways. The batadvblaaddclaim function can replace claim-backbonegw, and drop the last reference of the old gateway while the readers still follow the pointer. The netlink claim du...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

There is a bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating an NFC device from user-space...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netlink: added nla be16/32 types to the minlen array BUGs: KMSAN: uninit-value in nlavalidaterangeunsigned, lib/nlattr.c:222 inline BUGs: KMSAN: uninit-value in nlavalidateintrange, lib/nlattr.c:336 inline BUGs: KMSAN:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netlink: afnetlink: Added a check on the len parameter to prevent empty skb objects. This prevents a division error in the netemenqueue function, which occurs when skb-len=0 and skb-datalen=0 during the randomized corruption...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netlink: fixed a potential deadlock in netlinkseterr syzbot reported a possible deadlock in netlinkseterr 1 A similar issue was fixed in commit 1d482e666b8e “netlink: disabling IRQs for netlinklocktable” in netlinklocktable Th...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

A issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before version 5.8. The lib/nlattr.c file allows attackers to cause a denial of service unbounded recursion through a nested Netlink policy with a back reference...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: The netlink notifier might race to release objects. The commit release path is invoked via callrcu, and it runs without locking to release the objects after the rcu grace period. The netlink notifier handler...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

In the Linux kernel up to version 5.8.7, local attackers who were able to inject conntrack netlink configurations could exploit an overflow in a local buffer, resulting in crashes or triggering the use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlinkparsetuplefilter in net/netfilter/nfconntracknetlink....

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs Open vSwitch stores generated flow actions as nlattrs, where the nlalen field is of type u16. The vulnerability identified as commit a1e64addf3ff "net: openvswitch: remove...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ipv6: sr – fixed possible use-after-free and nullptrderef issues. The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: gtp: Fixed use-after-free and null-ptr-deref issues in gtpgenldumppdp. The gtpnetops pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family. Syzkaller reported a “general...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netlink: Fixed an issue where the kernel could be exposed after free operation in skbdatagramiter. The syzbot reported the following issue with uninitialized value access 1: The netlinktofullskb function creates a new skb and...