CVE-2024-50038 — netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

Affected: Linux

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

netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

syzbot managed to call xt_cluster match via ebtables:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c:72 xt_cluster_mt+0x196/0x780 [..] ebt_do_table+0x174b/0x2a40

Module registers to NFPROTO_UNSPEC, but it assumes ipv4/ipv6 packet processing. As this is only useful to restrict locally terminating TCP/UDP traffic, register this for ipv4 and ipv6 family only.

Pablo points out that this is a general issue, direct users of the set/getsockopt interface can call into targets/matches that were only intended for use with ip(6)tables.

Check all UNSPEC matches and targets for similar issues:

- matches and targets are fine except if they assume skb_network_header() is valid -- this is only true when called from inet layer: ip(6) stack pulls the ip/ipv6 header into linear data area. - targets that return XT_CONTINUE or other xtables verdicts must be restricted too, they are incompatbile with the ebtables traverser, e.g. EBT_CONTINUE is a completely different value than XT_CONTINUE.

Most matches/targets are changed to register for NFPROTO_IPV4/IPV6, as they are provided for use by ip(6)tables.

The MARK target is also used by arptables, so register for NFPROTO_ARP too.

While at it, bail out if connbytes fails to enable the corresponding conntrack family.

This change passes the selftests in iptables.git.

USN-7166-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux…

Affected: Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gke, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-kvm and 4 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - ACPI drivers; - Drivers core; - ATA over ethernet (AOE) driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Mailbox framework; - Media drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - NTB driver; - Virtio pmem driver; - PCI subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SPI subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - USB Device Class drivers; - USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver; - VFIO drivers; - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; - Framebuffer layer; - 9P distributed file system; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - JFS file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - Network file system (NFS)…

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CVE-2024-50038 — netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed

USN-7166-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux…