Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: act_mirred: don’t override retval if we already lost the skb
If we’re redirecting the skb, and haven’t called tcf_mirred_forward(), yet, we need to tell the core to drop the skb by setting the retcode to SHOT. If we have called tcf_mirred_forward(), however, the skb is out of our hands and returning SHOT will lead to UaF.
Move the retval override to the error path which actually need it.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 2.6.32 (+11 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: act_mirred: don’t override retval if we already lost the skb
If we’re redirecting the skb, and haven’t called tcf_mirred_forward(), yet, we need to tell the core to drop the skb by setting the retcode to SHOT. If we have called tcf_mirred_forward(), however, the skb is out of our hands and returning SHOT will lead to UaF.
Move the retval override to the error path which actually need it.