CVE-2024-26885

Technical Description

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

bpf: Fix DEVMAP_HASH overflow check on 32-bit arches

The devmap code allocates a number hash buckets equal to the next power

of two of the max_entries value provided when creating the map. When

rounding up to the next power of two, the 32-bit variable storing the

number of buckets can overflow, and the code checks for overflow by

checking if the truncated 32-bit value is equal to 0. However, on 32-bit

arches the rounding up itself can overflow mid-way through, because it

ends up doing a left-shift of 32 bits on an unsigned long value. If the

size of an unsigned long is four bytes, this is undefined behaviour, so

there is no guarantee that we'll end up with a nice and tidy 0-value at

the end.

Syzbot managed to turn this into a crash on arm32 by creating a

DEVMAP_HASH with max_entries > 0x80000000 and then trying to update it.

Fix this by moving the overflow check to before the rounding up

operation.

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