CVE-2024-27414 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtnetlink: fix error logic of IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS writing back

In the commit d73ef2d69c0d ( tnetlink: let rtnl_bridge_setlink checks IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE length) an adjustment was made to the old loop logic in the function rtnl_bridge_setlink to enable the loop to also check the length of the IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE attribute. However this adjustment removed the break statement and led to an error logic of the flags writing back at the end of this function.

if (have_flags) memcpy(nla_data(attr) &flags sizeof(flags)); // attr should point to IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS NLA !!!

Before the mentioned commit the attr is granted to be IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS. However this is not necessarily true fow now as the updated loop will let the attr point to the last NLA even an invalid NLA which could cause overflow writes.

This patch introduces a new variable br_flag to save the NLA pointer that points to IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS and uses it to resolve the mentioned error logic.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9fbc44159dfc3e9a7073032752d9e03f5194a6f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/882a51a10ecf24ce135d573afa0872aef02c5125 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1227b27fcccc99dc44f912b479e01a17e2d7d31 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2261eb994aa5757c1da046b78e3229a3ece0ad9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/167d8642daa6a44b51de17f8ff0f584e1e762db7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/831bc2728fb48a8957a824cba8c264b30dca1425 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/743ad091fb46e622f1b690385bb15e3cd3daf874