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IPComp carries no key and the allocation only\nreserves sizeof(struct xfrm_algo) (i.e. no room for a key), so the field\nis left containing uninitialized slab data.\n\ncalg->alg_key_len is later used as a length by xfrm_algo_clone() when an\nIPComp state is cloned during XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE:\n\n\txfrm_state_migrate()\n\t xfrm_state_clone_and_setup()\n\t x->calg = xfrm_algo_clone(orig->calg);\n\t kmemdup(orig, xfrm_alg_len(orig));\n\nwhere xfrm_alg_len() returns sizeof(*alg) + (alg_key_len + 7) / 8. With\na non-zero garbage alg_key_len, kmemdup() reads past the end of the\n68-byte calg object. Adding an IPComp SA via PF_KEY and then migrating\nit triggers (net-next, KASAN, init_on_alloc=0):\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_noprof+0x44/0x60\n Read of size 4164 at addr ff11000025a74980 by task diag2/9287\n CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 9287 Comm: diag2 7.1.0-rc6-g903db046d557 #1\n Call Trace:\n \n dump_stack_lvl+0x10e/0x1f0\n print_report+0xf7/0x600\n kasan_report+0xe4/0x120\n kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0\n __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n kmemdup_noprof+0x44/0x60\n xfrm_state_migrate+0x70a/0x1da0\n xfrm_migrate+0x753/0x18a0\n xfrm_do_migrate+0xb47/0xf10\n xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x411/0xb50\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420\n xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x71/0x90\n netlink_unicast+0x584/0x850\n netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xdc0\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x9f7/0xb90\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0\n __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220\n do_syscall_64+0x116/0x7d0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \n\n Allocated by task 9287:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0\n pfkey_add+0x2652/0x2ea0\n pfkey_process+0x6d0/0x830\n pfkey_sendmsg+0x42c/0x850\n __sys_sendto+0x461/0x4b0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0x116/0x7d0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ff11000025a74980\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96\n The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of\n allocated 68-byte region [ff11000025a74980, ff11000025a749c4)\n\nDepending on the uninitialized value the same field can instead request\nan oversized kmemdup() allocation and make the migration clone fail.\n\nThe XFRM netlink path is not affected: verify_one_alg() rejects an\nXFRMA_ALG_COMP attribute shorter than xfrm_alg_len(), so a calg added via\nXFRM_MSG_NEWSA is always self-consistent.\n\nInitialize calg->alg_key_len to 0, matching the aalg/ealg branches.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "58e82fc3dedb57b1432292504415b224fd2d6acb" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "01b9115b55018123ef2449ac4951f89147a8428e" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "3f63d1752d90c0e28be931a48ab5d89bc97d637d" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "273c06b81d2e902b21acc801ae18c8276c8a9b69" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "6de2a650917bedaaefd65b17cede83c5e2c1dedd" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "e8417353cbd078d10531ba3928e609c84ab09e6b" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "cea34abc94b0a81e3a8b5cfb41cf45af37c2c67e" }, { "version": "80c9abaabf4283f7cf4a0b3597cd302506635b7f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "d129c3177d7b1138fd5066fcc63a698b3ba415b0" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "2.6.21", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "2.6.21" }, { "version": "5.10.261", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*" }, { "version": "5.15.212", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*" }, { "version": "6.1.178", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*" }, { "version": "6.6.145", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*" }, { "version": "6.12.96", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.18.39", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*" }, { "version": "7.1.4", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*" }, { "version": "7.2", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }