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jira VULN-8272
cve CVE-2024-41091
commit-author Dongli Zhang [email protected] commit 0495848

The cited commit missed to check against the validity of the frame length in the tun_xdp_one() path, which could cause a corrupted skb to be sent downstack. Even before the skb is transmitted, the tun_xdp_one-->eth_type_trans() may access the Ethernet header although it can be less than ETH_HLEN. Once transmitted, this could either cause out-of-bound access beyond the actual length, or confuse the underlayer with incorrect or inconsistent header length in the skb metadata.

In the alternative path, tun_get_user() already prohibits short frame which has the length less than Ethernet header size from being transmitted for IFF_TAP.

This is to drop any frame shorter than the Ethernet header size just like how tun_get_user() does.

CVE: CVE-2024-41091
Inspired-by: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/ Fixes: 043d222 ("tuntap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Jason Wang [email protected]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [email protected]
(cherry picked from commit 0495848)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Allison [email protected]

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Linux r8_6_lts 4.18.0-ciqlts8_6+ #1 SMP Thu Mar 20 18:36:43 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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jira VULN-8272
cve CVE-2024-41091
commit-author Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>
commit 0495848

The cited commit missed to check against the validity of the frame length
in the tun_xdp_one() path, which could cause a corrupted skb to be sent
downstack. Even before the skb is transmitted, the
tun_xdp_one-->eth_type_trans() may access the Ethernet header although it
can be less than ETH_HLEN. Once transmitted, this could either cause
out-of-bound access beyond the actual length, or confuse the underlayer
with incorrect or inconsistent header length in the skb metadata.

In the alternative path, tun_get_user() already prohibits short frame which
has the length less than Ethernet header size from being transmitted for
IFF_TAP.

This is to drop any frame shorter than the Ethernet header size just like
how tun_get_user() does.

CVE: CVE-2024-41091
Inspired-by: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
Fixes: 043d222 ("tuntap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()")
	Cc: [email protected]
	Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>
	Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <[email protected]>
	Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
	Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
	Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
	Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 0495848)
	Signed-off-by: Jeremy Allison <[email protected]>
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@jallisonciq jallisonciq merged commit c4e2f23 into ciqlts8_6 Mar 26, 2025
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@jallisonciq jallisonciq deleted the {jallison}_ciqlts8_6_CVE-2024-41091 branch March 26, 2025 20:45
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