CVE-2024-41048 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-41048

skmsg: Skip zero length skb in sk_msg_recvmsg

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: skmsg: Skip zero length skb in sk_msg_recvmsg When running BPF selftests (./test_progs -t sockmap_basic) on a Loongarch platform, the following kernel panic occurs: [...] Oops[#1]: CPU: 22 PID: 2824 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G OE 6.10.0-rc2+ #18 Hardware name: LOONGSON Dabieshan/Loongson-TC542F0, BIOS Loongson-UDK2018 ... ... ra: 90000000048bf6c0 sk_msg_recvmsg+0x120/0x560 ERA: 9000000004162774 copy_page_to_iter+0x74/0x1c0 CRMD: 000000b0 (PLV0 -IE -DA +PG DACF=CC DACM=CC -WE) PRMD: 0000000c (PPLV0 +PIE +PWE) EUEN: 00000007 (+FPE +SXE +ASXE -BTE) ECFG: 00071c1d (LIE=0,2-4,10-12 VS=7) ESTAT: 00010000 [PIL] (IS= ECode=1 EsubCode=0) BADV: 0000000000000040 PRID: 0014c011 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-3C5000) Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE) xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack Process test_progs (pid: 2824, threadinfo=0000000000863a31, task=...) Stack : ... Call Trace: [<9000000004162774>] copy_page_to_iter+0x74/0x1c0 [<90000000048bf6c0>] sk_msg_recvmsg+0x120/0x560 [<90000000049f2b90>] tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser+0x170/0x4e0 [<90000000049aae34>] inet_recvmsg+0x54/0x100 [<900000000481ad5c>] sock_recvmsg+0x7c/0xe0 [<900000000481e1a8>] __sys_recvfrom+0x108/0x1c0 [<900000000481e27c>] sys_recvfrom+0x1c/0x40 [<9000000004c076ec>] do_syscall+0x8c/0xc0 [<9000000003731da4>] handle_syscall+0xc4/0x160 Code: ... ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Kernel relocated by 0x3510000 .text @ 0x9000000003710000 .data @ 0x9000000004d70000 .bss @ 0x9000000006469400 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]--- [...] This crash happens every time when running sockmap_skb_verdict_shutdown subtest in sockmap_basic. This crash is because a NULL pointer is passed to page_address() in the sk_msg_recvmsg(). Due to the different implementations depending on the architecture, page_address(NULL) will trigger a panic on Loongarch platform but not on x86 platform. So this bug was hidden on x86 platform for a while, but now it is exposed on Loongarch platform. The root cause is that a zero length skb (skb->len == 0) was put on the queue. This zero length skb is a TCP FIN packet, which was sent by shutdown(), invoked in test_sockmap_skb_verdict_shutdown(): shutdown(p1, SHUT_WR); In this case, in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue(), num_sge is zero, and no page is put to this sge (see sg_set_page in sg_set_page), but this empty sge is queued into ingress_msg list. And in sk_msg_recvmsg(), this empty sge is used, and a NULL page is got by sg_page(sge). Pass this NULL page to copy_page_to_iter(), which passes it to kmap_local_page() and to page_address(), then kernel panics. To solve this, we should skip this zero length skb. So in sk_msg_recvmsg(), if copy is zero, that means it's a zero length skb, skip invoking copy_page_to_iter(). We are using the EFAULT return triggered by copy_page_to_iter to check for is_fin in tcp_bpf.c.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c, 4.20, 0, 5.15.163, 6.1.100, 6.6.41, 6.9.10, 6.10

Timeline

Official Publish: July 29th, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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