CVE-2021-47591

Summary

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

mptcp: remove tcp ulp setsockopt support

TCP_ULP setsockopt cannot be used for mptcp because its already used internally to plumb subflow (tcp) sockets to the mptcp layer.

syzbot managed to trigger a crash for mptcp connections that are in fallback mode:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027] CPU: 1 PID: 1083 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-syzkaller #0 RIP: 0010:tls_build_proto net/tls/tls_main.c:776 [inline] [..] __tcp_set_ulp net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:139 [inline] tcp_set_ulp+0x428/0x4c0 net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:160 do_tcp_setsockopt+0x455/0x37c0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3391 mptcp_setsockopt+0x1b47/0x2400 net/mptcp/sockopt.c:638

Remove support for TCP_ULP setsockopt.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxd9e4c129181004ec94b315b0c9db5eeb09da75e6 < 3de0c86d42f841d1d64f316cd949e65c566f0734affected
LinuxLinuxd9e4c129181004ec94b315b0c9db5eeb09da75e6 < 404cd9a22150f24acf23a8df2ad0c094ba379f57affected
LinuxLinux5.13affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.13unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.11 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References