CVE-2022-49450

Technical Description

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

rxrpc: Fix listen() setting the bar too high for the prealloc rings

AF_RXRPC's listen() handler lets you set the backlog up to 32 (if you bump

up the sysctl), but whilst the preallocation circular buffers have 32 slots

in them, one of them has to be a dead slot because we're using CIRC_CNT().

This means that listen(rxrpc_sock, 32) will cause an oops when the socket

is closed because rxrpc_service_prealloc_one() allocated one too many calls

and rxrpc_discard_prealloc() won't then be able to get rid of them because

it'll think the ring is empty. rxrpc_release_calls_on_socket() then tries

to abort them, but oopses because call->peer isn't yet set.

Fix this by setting the maximum backlog to RXRPC_BACKLOG_MAX - 1 to match

the ring capacity.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000086

...

RIP: 0010:rxrpc_send_abort_packet+0x73/0x240 [rxrpc]

Call Trace:

<TASK>

? __wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0x9

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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