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Linux 커널의 fddi(skfp) 드라이버에서 인터페이스가 비활성화(down)된 상태로 MAC 주소를 설정할 때 NULL 포인터를 참조하여 시스템이 충돌하는 취약점입니다. ResetAdapter() 함수가 인터페이스 상태를 확인하지 않고 전송 큐를 초기화하려 시도하면서 발생합니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
네트워크 카드가 꺼져 있는 상태에서 주소를 바꾸려고 하면, 컴퓨터가 존재하지 않는 메모리 위치를 건드려 시스템이 멈추거나 오류가 발생하는 문제입니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down
skfp_ctl_set_mac_address() calls ResetAdapter() unconditionally, without
checking netif_running(). ResetAdapter() first calls card_stop(), which
sets smc->hw.hw_state to STOPPED, and then mac_drv_clear_tx_queue(),
which walks the two transmit queues:
for (i = QUEUE_S; i <= QUEUE_A0; i++) {
queue = smc->hw.fp.tx[i] ;
...
t = queue->tx_curr_get ;
smc->hw.fp.tx[] is only populated by init_tx(), which is reached from
skfp_open() through init_smt() -> init_fddi_driver() -> init_fplus() ->
init_mac() -> init_tx(). The private area is allocated and zeroed by
alloc_fddidev(), so on an interface that has never been brought up both
queue pointers are still NULL. The hw_state test at the top of
mac_drv_clear_tx_queue() does not catch this, because card_stop() has
just set STOPPED; the function proceeds into the loop and dereferences
NULL. ResetAdapter() does call init_smt() itself, but only after the
queues have been cleared.
Setting the MAC address on a down interface therefore oopses:
ip link set dev fddi0 address 02:00:00:00:00:01
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp]
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task ip/302
Call Trace:
<TASK>
mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
ResetAdapter+0x29/0x100 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
skfp_ctl_set_mac_address+0x57/0x80 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
netif_set_mac_address+0x1e4/0x2c0
do_setlink+0x684/0x2680
</TASK>
Address 0x10 is the offset of tx_curr_get, the third pointer in
struct s_smt_tx_queue, on 64-bit. mac_drv_clear_rx_queue(), which
ResetAdapter() calls immediately afterwards, dereferences
smc->hw.fp.rx[QUEUE_R1] in the same way behind the same ineffective
hw_state test; the transmit queue merely crashes first. Both are
covered by the guard below.
Skip the adapter reset when the interface is down. dev_addr_set() is
left unconditional, so the new address is still recorded in
dev->dev_addr. Nothing is lost by not resetting the adapter here:
skfp_open() deliberately re-reads the factory address on every open,
read_address(smc, NULL);
eth_hw_addr_set(dev, smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a);
and the comment above it states this is done to discard exactly such an
address override across a close/open cycle. An address set while the
interface is down could not have survived the following open even
before this change, so the guard removes no working behaviour. Guarding
the hardware side of ndo_set_mac_address() with netif_running() is
established practice; skge_set_mac_address() has done so since commit
2eb3e621c4e0 ("skge: set mac address bonding fix").
Guarding the reset as a whole, rather than NULL-checking the queues, is
also what the rest of the driver expects. After a previous open/close
the queue pointers are stale but non-NULL, so there is no crash, yet
ResetAdapter() goes on to call smt_online() and STI_FBI() ("Enable
Board Interrupts") while skfp_close() has already called free_irq() -
the adapter would be brought back online with no handler installed. The
only other ResetAdapter() caller is skfp_interrupt(), which by
construction runs only while the device is open.
Found by automated driver testing against an emulated SysKonnect FDDI
adapter under a KASAN-enabled 7.0.0 kernel. Triggering it requires
CAP_NET_ADMIN.
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (KASAN enabled 7.0.0 kernel and potentially others using skfp driver)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
CAP_NET_ADMIN 권한을 가진 사용자가 비활성화된 fddi 인터페이스의 MAC 주소를 변경할 때 발생
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 skfp_ctl_set_mac_address() 내의 netif_running() 체크 로직을 적용해야 합니다.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 해당 취약점이 수정된 패치 버전 이후인지 확인합니다.
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