CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-50142

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, there is a lack of validation of new SA's prefixlen using SA family when sel.family is unset. This can lead to improper validation and potential security issues.

Risk Assessment

This may lead to bypassing security mechanisms or undefined behavior in the xfrm subsystem. It affects systems running vulnerable Linux kernel versions.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix, which performs the family conversion before validating prefixlen. Apply security updates.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: validate new SA's prefixlen using SA family when sel.family is unset This expands the validation introduced in commit 07bf7908950a ("xfrm: Validate address prefix lengths in the xfrm selector.") syzbot created an SA with usersa.sel.family = AF_UNSPEC usersa.sel.prefixlen_s = 128 usersa.family = AF_INET Because of the AF_UNSPEC selector, verify_newsa_info doesn't put limits on prefixlen_{s,d}. But then copy_from_user_state sets x->sel.family to usersa.family (AF_INET). Do the same conversion in verify_newsa_info before validating prefixlen_{s,d}, since that's how prefixlen is going to be used later on.

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