CVE-2024-56659 net: lapb: increase LAPB_HEADER_LEN
A flaw in the Linux kernel's LAPB network protocol handling can cause a kernel crash, leading to a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-56659?
CVE-2024-56659 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: lapb: increase LAPB_HEADER_LEN
It is unclear if net/lapb code is supposed to be ready for 8021q.
We can at least avoid crashes like the following :
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8aabe1f6 len:24 put:20 head:ffff88802824a400 data:ffff88802824a3fe tail:0x16 end:0x140 dev:nr0.2 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 ! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5508 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00144-g66418447d27b #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024 RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:206 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_under_panic+0x14b/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:216 Code: 0d 8d 48 c7 c6 2e 9e 29 8e 48 8b 54 24 08 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 41 54 41 57 41 56 e8 1a 6f 37 02 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 RSP: 0018:ffffc90002ddf638 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000086 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 7a24750e538ff600 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000201 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff888034a86650 R08: ffffffff8174b13c R09: 1ffff920005bbe60 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520005bbe61 R12: 0000000000000140 R13: ffff88802824a400 R14: ffff88802824a3fe R15: 0000000000000016 FS: 00007f2a5990d740(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000110c2631fd CR3: 0000000029504000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> skb_push+0xe5/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:2636 nr_header+0x36/0x320 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:69 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline] vlan_dev_hard_header+0x359/0x480 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:83 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline] lapbeth_data_transmit+0x1f6/0x2a0 drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c:257 lapb_data_transmit+0x91/0xb0 net/lapb/lapb_iface.c:447 lapb_transmit_buffer+0x168/0x1f0 net/lapb/lapb_out.c:149 lapb_establish_data_link+0x84/0xd0 lapb_device_event+0x4e0/0x670 notifier_call_chain+0x19f/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:93 __dev_notify_flags+0x207/0x400 dev_change_flags+0xf0/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8922 devinet_ioctl+0xa4e/0x1aa0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1188 inet_ioctl+0x3d7/0x4f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1003 sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1227 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1346 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56659?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-56659?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-56659 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56659 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-54794, AZL-54841, BELL-CVE-2024-56659, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56659, GHSA-7v7h-rp2j-g295, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56659.