🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 packet 서브시스템에서 TX_RING 패킷 처리 시 메모리 슬롯 해제 시점이 부적절하여 발생하는 취약점입니다. skb_orphan 호출 시 슬롯이 데이터 사용 중에 조기 해제되어 재사용될 수 있는 문제를 해결하기 위해 ubuf_info 완료 메커니즘을 도입했습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
데이터를 전송하는 도중에 메모리 공간이 미리 비워져서 다른 데이터가 덮어씌워질 수 있는 보안 결함입니다. 이로 인해 데이터가 오염되거나 시스템 오류가 발생할 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets
tpacket_snd sends skbs with frags pointing into its ring slots. Slots
are released when skb->destructor is called.
A call to skb_orphan calls skb->destructor before the skb is freed.
This can cause the slot to be reused while still linked into the skb.
Switch to standard zerocopy completion (ubuf_info) so the slot is only
released once all references to the payload are freed or copied.
Restore skb->destructor to standard sock_wfree.
The ubuf_info completion callback can be called with a NULL skb, but
only from net_zcopy_put and related API, used by zerocopy implementations
that hold their own reference on the uarg, such as MSG_ZEROCOPY. This
uarg is only ever completed from skb_zcopy_clear, so skb is always set.
To prevent userspace from aliasing in-flight state on shared ring
slots, allocate tpacket_uarg per packet, rather than per slot. This
adds a small allocation to the transmit path. Use standard kmalloc to
allow backporting to stable kernels.
The uarg holds an sk_wmem_alloc reference, rather than an sk_refcnt
reference. packet_free_tx_ring waits on sk_wmem_alloc before freeing
the ring pages. Always allocate vec->deferred for tx_ring so page-backed
rings also wait on sk_wmem_alloc when skb_copy_ubufs drops page refs
before calling tpacket_ubuf_complete.
Drop the tx_ring.pg_vec test that tpacket_destruct_skb performed before
accessing the slot. The sk_wmem_alloc reference now guarantees that the
slot is valid. The test is also not sufficient by itself, as it reads
pg_vec without pg_vec_lock, so it can race with packet_set_ring.
As a result a slot is released when its payload is copied, which can
be before transmission (e.g., in skb_orphan_frags_rx). If copied
before skb_tx_timestamp() is called, no slot timestamp is recorded,
similar to when skb_orphan() was called early in the datapath before
this patch.
Revert the now unused previous skb_zcopy_.._nouarg infra.
Depends on commit 992cc9f94ca9 ("net/packet: defer vmalloc TX_RING
free until skbs finish").
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux Kernel (tpacket_snd 및 TX_RING 관련 모듈 사용 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
특수하게 조작된 패킷 전송을 통해 메모리 슬롯의 조기 해제를 유도하여 데이터 레이스 또는 메모리 오염 유발
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하십시오.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 해당 취약점이 수정된 패치 버전 이후인지 확인하십시오.