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

openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets

running openvswitch on kernels built with KASAN, it's possible to see the
following splat while testing fragmentation of IPv4 packets:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112fc713c by task handler2/1367

CPU: 0 PID: 1367 Comm: handler2 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6+ #418
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x92/0xc1
print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x150
kasan_report.cold.13+0x7f/0x111
ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60
ovs_fragment+0x5bf/0x840 [openvswitch]
do_execute_actions+0x1bd5/0x2400 [openvswitch]
ovs_execute_actions+0xc8/0x3d0 [openvswitch]
ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xa39/0x1150 [openvswitch]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x227/0x2d0
genl_rcv_msg+0x287/0x490
netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x380
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x439/0x630
netlink_sendmsg+0x719/0xbf0
sock_sendmsg+0xe2/0x110
____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x890
___sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x160
__sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f957079db07
Code: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 eb ec ff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 24 ed ff ff 48
RSP: 002b:00007f956ce35a50 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000019 RCX: 00007f957079db07
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f956ce35ae0 RDI: 0000000000000019
RBP: 00007f956ce35ae0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f9558006730
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f956ce37308 R14: 00007f956ce35f80 R15: 00007f956ce35ae0

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:00000000af2a1d93 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x112fc7
flags: 0x17ffffc0000000()
raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

addr ffff888112fc713c is located in stack of task handler2/1367 at offset 180 in frame:
ovs_fragment+0x0/0x840 [openvswitch]

this frame has 2 objects:
[32, 144) 'ovs_dst'
[192, 424) 'ovs_rt'

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888112fc7000: f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff888112fc7080: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888112fc7100: 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
^
ffff888112fc7180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff888112fc7200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

for IPv4 packets, ovs_fragment() uses a temporary struct dst_entry. Then,
in the following call graph:

ip_do_fragment()
ip_skb_dst_mtu()
ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward()
ip_mtu_locked()

the pointer to struct dst_entry is used as pointer to struct rtable: this
turns the access to struct members like rt_mtu_locked into an OOB read in
the stack. Fix this changing the temporary variable used for IPv4 packets
in ovs_fragment(), similarly to what is done for IPv6 few lines below.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'}


Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T12:40:36.828Z

Reserved: 2024-02-27T18:42:55.937Z

Link: CVE-2021-46955

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Updated: 2024-08-04T05:17:42.889Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-27T19:04:06.667

Modified: 2024-12-06T17:53:52.043

Link: CVE-2021-46955

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-02-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-46955 - Bugzilla

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