7.8

CVE-2021-46999

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

sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a

There's a panic that occurs in a few of envs, the call trace is as below:

  [] general protection fault, ... 0x29acd70f1000a: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
  [] RIP: 0010:sctp_ulpevent_notify_peer_addr_change+0x4b/0x1fa [sctp]
  []  sctp_assoc_control_transport+0x1b9/0x210 [sctp]
  []  sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike.isra.16+0x15c/0x220 [sctp]
  []  sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.21+0x1231/0x1a10 [sctp]
  []  sctp_do_sm+0xc3/0x2a0 [sctp]
  []  sctp_generate_timeout_event+0x81/0xf0 [sctp]

This is caused by a transport use-after-free issue. When processing a
duplicate COOKIE-ECHO chunk in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a(), both COOKIE-ACK
and SHUTDOWN chunks are allocated with the transort from the new asoc.
However, later in the sideeffect machine, the old asoc is used to send
them out and old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to is set to the transport
that SHUTDOWN chunk attached to in sctp_cmd_setup_t2(), which actually
belongs to the new asoc. After the new_asoc is freed and the old asoc
T2 timeout, the old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to that is already freed
would be accessed in sctp_sf_t2_timer_expire().

Thanks Alexander and Jere for helping dig into this issue.

To fix it, this patch is to do the asoc update first, then allocate
the COOKIE-ACK and SHUTDOWN chunks with the 'updated' old asoc. This
would make more sense, as a chunk from an asoc shouldn't be sent out
with another asoc. We had fixed quite a few issues caused by this.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.19.123 < 4.19.191
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.4.41 < 5.4.120
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.7 < 5.10.38
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.11.22
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.12 < 5.12.5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.032
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.