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tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:56:26 +0000 (05:56 -0700)
committerDhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:18:15 +0000 (14:18 -0500)
commit2ebb1eb4750512f0d7f93ba341a68684841730b6
treec8900d94ec2c6c0c55d295585a1049e8a4fffec6
parent610db2c7d7113c80bbe48df3e198894dc9f09af7
tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

Orabug: 25374364
CVE: CVE-2016-6828

When tcp_sendmsg() allocates a fresh and empty skb, it puts it at the
tail of the write queue using tcp_add_write_queue_tail()

Then it attempts to copy user data into this fresh skb.

If the copy fails, we undo the work and remove the fresh skb.

Unfortunately, this undo lacks the change done to tp->highest_sack and
we can leave a dangling pointer (to a freed skb)

Later, tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() can dereference this pointer and
access freed memory. For regular kernels where memory is not unmapped,
this might cause SACK bugs because tcp_highest_sack_seq() is buggy,
returning garbage instead of tp->snd_nxt, but with various debug
features like CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, this can crash the kernel.

This bug was found by Marco Grassi thanks to syzkaller.

Fixes: 6859d49475d4 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb")
Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit bb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
include/net/tcp.h