CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-1000112

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to memory corruption that occurs when switching the path from UFO to non-UFO. The issue arises when UFO packet lengths exceed MTU, leading to negative values in calculations and writing out-of-bounds.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized memory access, threatening system integrity and potentially causing crashes or unexpected application behavior.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor the system for unauthorized activities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch. When building a UFO packet with MSG_MORE __ip_append_data() calls ip_ufo_append_data() to append. However in between two send() calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In case UFO packet lengths exceeds MTU, copy = maxfraglen - skb->len becomes negative on the non-UFO path and the branch to allocate new skb is taken. This triggers fragmentation and computation of fraggap = skb_prev->len - maxfraglen. Fraggap can exceed MTU, causing copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap to become negative. Subsequently skb_copy_and_csum_bits() writes out-of-bounds. A similar issue is present in IPv6 code. The bug was introduced in e89e9cf539a2 ("[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach") on Oct 18 2005.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS