CVE-2022-49197

Technical Description

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

af_netlink: Fix shift out of bounds in group mask calculation

When a netlink message is received, netlink_recvmsg() fills in the address

of the sender. One of the fields is the 32-bit bitfield nl_groups, which

carries the multicast group on which the message was received. The least

significant bit corresponds to group 1, and therefore the highest group

that the field can represent is 32. Above that, the UB sanitizer flags the

out-of-bounds shift attempts.

Which bits end up being set in such case is implementation defined, but

it's either going to be a wrong non-zero value, or zero, which is at least

not misleading. Make the latter choice deterministic by always setting to 0

for higher-numbered multicast groups.

To get information about membership in groups >= 32, userspace is expected

to use nl_pktinfo control messages[0], which are enabled by NETLINK_PKTINFO

socket option.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/147608/

The

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

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