GHSA-C425-5GHG-6J48

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-22 09:31 – Updated: 2025-09-24 21:30
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Details

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

net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls

sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code. For instance,

[kworker]
tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>)
  tls_err_abort(.., err)
    sk->sk_err = err;

[task]
splice_from_pipe_feed
  ...
    tls_sw_do_sendpage
      if (sk->sk_err) {
        ret = -sk->sk_err;  // ret is positive

splice_from_pipe_feed (continued)
  ret = actor(...)  // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes
                    // written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and
                    // sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus
                    // addresses computed in later calls to actor()

Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it really does only warn once.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-47496"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-787"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-05-22T09:15:11Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls\n\nsk-\u003esk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls\ndoesn\u0027t always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code.\nFor instance,\n\n    [kworker]\n    tls_encrypt_done(..., err=\u003cnegative error from crypto request\u003e)\n      tls_err_abort(.., err)\n        sk-\u003esk_err = err;\n\n    [task]\n    splice_from_pipe_feed\n      ...\n        tls_sw_do_sendpage\n          if (sk-\u003esk_err) {\n            ret = -sk-\u003esk_err;  // ret is positive\n\n    splice_from_pipe_feed (continued)\n      ret = actor(...)  // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes\n                        // written, resulting in underflow of buf-\u003elen and\n                        // sd-\u003elen, leading to huge buf-\u003eoffset and bogus\n                        // addresses computed in later calls to actor()\n\nFix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code\nconsistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in\na warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it\nreally does only warn once.",
  "id": "GHSA-c425-5ghg-6j48",
  "modified": "2025-09-24T21:30:30Z",
  "published": "2024-05-22T09:31:46Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47496"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cfd5159f314d6b304d030363650b06a2299cbb"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41473543f75f7dbc5d605007e6f883f1bd13b9a"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3dec7e7ace38224f82cf83f0049159d067c2e19"
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}



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