CVE-2022-50243

Technical Description

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

sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key

When it returns an error from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key(), the

active_key is actually not updated. The old sh_key will be freeed

while it's still used as active key in asoc. Then an use-after-free

will be triggered when sending patckets, as found by syzbot:

sctp_auth_shkey_hold+0x22/0xa0 net/sctp/auth.c:112

sctp_set_owner_w net/sctp/socket.c:132 [inline]

sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0xbd5/0x1a20 net/sctp/socket.c:1863

sctp_sendmsg+0x1053/0x1d50 net/sctp/socket.c:2025

inet_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]

sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734

This patch is to fix it by not replacing the sh_key when it returns

errors from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() in sctp_auth_set_key().

For sctp_auth_set_active_key(), old active_key_id will be set back

to asoc->active_key_id when the same thin

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References