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CVE-2021-47363

2024-05-2100:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
cve-2021-47363
division by zero
resilient nexthop group
fix
data path
testing
allocation
stub table
replacement
traffic
testing
failed tests

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nexthop: Fix division by zero while replacing a resilient group The
resilient nexthop group torture tests in fib_nexthop.sh exposed a possible
division by zero while replacing a resilient group [1]. The division by
zero occurs when the data path sees a resilient nexthop group with zero
buckets. The tests replace a resilient nexthop group in a loop while
traffic is forwarded through it. The tests do not specify the number of
buckets while performing the replacement, resulting in the kernel
allocating a stub resilient table (i.e, ‘struct nh_res_table’) with zero
buckets. This table should never be visible to the data path, but the old
nexthop group (i.e., ‘oldg’) might still be used by the data path when the
stub table is assigned to it. Fix this by only assigning the stub table to
the old nexthop group after making sure the group is no longer used by the
data path. Tested with fib_nexthops.sh: Tests passed: 222 Tests failed: 0
[1] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 1850 Comm: ping
Not tainted 5.14.0-custom-10271-ga86eb53057fe #1107 Hardware name: QEMU
Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014 RIP:
0010:nexthop_select_path+0x2d2/0x1a80 […] Call Trace:
fib_select_multipath+0x79b/0x1530 fib_select_path+0x8fb/0x1c10
ip_route_output_key_hash_rcu+0x1198/0x2da0
ip_route_output_key_hash+0x190/0x340 ip_route_output_flow+0x21/0x120
raw_sendmsg+0x91d/0x2e10 inet_sendmsg+0x9e/0xe0 __sys_sendto+0x23d/0x360
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe1/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%