CVE-2024-42246

Technical Description

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

net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket

When using a BPF program on kernel_connect(), the call can return -EPERM. This

causes xs_tcp_setup_socket() to loop forever, filling up the syslog and causing

the kernel to potentially freeze up.

Neil suggested:

This will propagate -EPERM up into other layers which might not be ready

to handle it. It might be safer to map EPERM to an error we would be more

likely to expect from the network system - such as ECONNREFUSED or ENETDOWN.

ECONNREFUSED as error seems reasonable. For programs setting a different error

can be out of reach (see handling in 4fbac77d2d09) in particular on kernels

which do not have f10d05966196 ("bpf: Make BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY return -err

instead of allow boolean"), thus given that it is better to simply remap for

consistent behavior. UDP does handle EPERM in xs_udp_send_request().

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

References