CVE-2024-36889 mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect

2024-05-3015:28:56

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

vulnerability

cve-2024-36889

mptcp

snd_nxt

initialization

security fix

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

JSON

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

mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect

Christoph reported a splat hinting at a corrupted snd_una:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 38 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 __mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 38 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-gbbeac67456c9 #59
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events mptcp_worker
RIP: 0010:__mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
Code: be 06 01 00 00 bf 06 01 00 00 e8 a8 12 e7 fe e9 00 fe ff ff e8
8e 1a e7 fe 0f b7 ab 3e 02 00 00 e9 d3 fd ff ff e8 7d 1a e7 fe
<0f> 0b 4c 8b bb e0 05 00 00 e9 74 fc ff ff e8 6a 1a e7 fe 0f 0b e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000013fd48 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881029bd280 RCX: ffffffff82382fe4
RDX: ffff8881003cbd00 RSI: ffffffff823833c3 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888138ba8000
R13: 0000000000000106 R14: ffff8881029bd908 R15: ffff888126560000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f604a5dae38 CR3: 0000000101dac002 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1055 [inline]
mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1062 [inline]
__mptcp_retrans+0x7f/0x7e0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2615
mptcp_worker+0x434/0x740 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2767
process_one_work+0x1e0/0x560 kernel/workqueue.c:3254
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3335 [inline]
worker_thread+0x3c7/0x640 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
kthread+0x121/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x44/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243
</TASK>

When fallback to TCP happens early on a client socket, snd_nxt
is not yet initialized and any incoming ack will copy such value
into snd_una. If the mptcp worker (dumbly) tries mptcp-level
re-injection after such ack, that would unconditionally trigger a send
buffer cleanup using ‘bad’ snd_una values.

We could easily disable re-injection for fallback sockets, but such
dumb behavior already helped catching a few subtle issues and a very
low to zero impact in practice.

Instead address the issue always initializing snd_nxt (and write_seq,
for consistency) at connect time.

CNA Affected

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