CVE-2024-56639

Technical Description

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

net: hsr: must allocate more bytes for RedBox support

Blamed commit forgot to change hsr_init_skb() to allocate

larger skb for RedBox case.

Indeed, send_hsr_supervision_frame() will add

two additional components (struct hsr_sup_tlv

and struct hsr_sup_payload)

syzbot reported the following crash:

skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffff8afd4b0a len:34 put:6 head:ffff88802ad29e00 data:ffff88802ad29f22 tail:0x144 end:0x140 dev:gretap0

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kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 !

Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 7611 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x157/0x1d0 net/core/skbuff.c:206

Code: b6 04 01 84 c0 74 04 3c 03 7e 21 8b 4b 70 41 56 45 89 e8 48 c7 c7 a0 7d 9b 8c 41 57 56 48 89 ee 52 4c 89 e2 e8 9a 76 79 f8 90 <0

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