CVE-2025-37920

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Packets in\n RX path will either complete safely or drop."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - Exploitation requires the attacker to locally establish the vulnerable configuration \u2014 create two AF_XDP sockets, register a umem, bind both with XDP_SHARED_UMEM to the same device/queue_id, and attach a generic-XDP program redirecting into an xskmap. Although the race is sprung by packet reception, a purely remote attacker cannot create that state, so the attack vector is local.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: it creates both sockets sharing the single xsk_buff_pool, and generic XDP runs from the per-CPU backlog in __netif_receive_skb_core(), so sending traffic over veth/lo from threads pinned to different CPUs puts multiple CPUs into xsk_generic_rcv() concurrently on rxq index 0. No condition outside the attacker's influence is required, and the free_list_cnt u32 underflow makes the corrupted state persist across packets.\nPR:L - xsk_create() only requires ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW), which an unprivileged user obtains via unshare -Urn; XDP attach needs CAP_NET_ADMIN, also user-namespace reachable. BPF program load needs CAP_BPF \u2014 an explicitly non-root delegated capability routinely granted to containers and AF_XDP dataplane workloads \u2014 so this is a low-privileged local user, not real root in the initial namespace.\nUI:N - The attacker performs the entire sequence itself \u2014 socket setup, XDP attach, and traffic generation \u2014 with no action required from any other user or administrator.\nS:U - The corrupted objects (xsk_buff_pool, its free_list/free_heads arrays, adjacent slab memory) all live within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The fill-ring consumer race hands the same umem address and the same pool->heads[] xdp_buff_xsk to two sockets, and the empty-free_list case manufactures an xdp_buff_xsk whose data_hard_start is read from memory preceding the pool allocation; the resulting frames are surfaced to userspace through the mmap'd RX rings, leaking kernel memory. The same corruption is leverageable into a broader arbitrary-read primitive.\nI:H - The bug yields wild writes with attacker-controlled packet payload (memcpy through a data_hard_start read out of bounds), clobbers pool->xsk_tx_list.next, corrupts the shared free_list via concurrent list_add(), and overflows free_heads_cnt past the flexible array at the end of the pool allocation \u2014 a heap overflow with attacker-influenced contents, sufficient for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The multi-buffer path dereferences xsk_buff_alloc()'s return without a NULL check after the racy xsk_buff_can_alloc() TOCTOU, producing a NULL-pointer write in softirq context; linked-list corruption, counter underflow, and double-ownership of buffers likewise cause oopses and panics."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["include/net/xdp_sock.h", 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Although the race is sprung by packet reception, a purely remote attacker cannot create that state, so the attack vector is local.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: it creates both sockets sharing the single xsk_buff_pool, and generic XDP runs from the per-CPU backlog in __netif_receive_skb_core(), so sending traffic over veth/lo from threads pinned to different CPUs puts multiple CPUs into xsk_generic_rcv() concurrently on rxq index 0. No condition outside the attacker's influence is required, and the free_list_cnt u32 underflow makes the corrupted state persist across packets.\nPR:L - xsk_create() only requires ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW), which an unprivileged user obtains via unshare -Urn; XDP attach needs CAP_NET_ADMIN, also user-namespace reachable. BPF program load needs CAP_BPF \u2014 an explicitly non-root delegated capability routinely granted to containers and AF_XDP dataplane workloads \u2014 so this is a low-privileged local user, not real root in the initial namespace.\nUI:N - The attacker performs the entire sequence itself \u2014 socket setup, XDP attach, and traffic generation \u2014 with no action required from any other user or administrator.\nS:U - The corrupted objects (xsk_buff_pool, its free_list/free_heads arrays, adjacent slab memory) all live within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The fill-ring consumer race hands the same umem address and the same pool->heads[] xdp_buff_xsk to two sockets, and the empty-free_list case manufactures an xdp_buff_xsk whose data_hard_start is read from memory preceding the pool allocation; the resulting frames are surfaced to userspace through the mmap'd RX rings, leaking kernel memory. 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Packets in\n RX path will either complete safely or drop."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: xsk: Corrige la condici\u00f3n de ejecuci\u00f3n en la ruta RX gen\u00e9rica AF_XDP Mueve rx_lock de xsk_socket a xsk_buff_pool. Corrige la sincronizaci\u00f3n para el modo umem compartido en la ruta RX gen\u00e9rica donde varios sockets comparten un solo xsk_buff_pool. La cola RX es exclusiva de xsk_socket, mientras que la cola FILL se puede compartir entre varios sockets. Esto podr\u00eda resultar en una condici\u00f3n de ejecuci\u00f3n donde dos n\u00facleos de CPU acceden a la ruta RX de dos sockets diferentes que comparten el mismo umem. Protege ambas colas adquiriendo spinlock en xsk_buff_pool compartido. La contenci\u00f3n de bloqueos se puede minimizar en el futuro mediante alg\u00fan b\u00fafer FQ por subproceso. Es seguro y necesario mover spin_lock_bh(rx_lock) despu\u00e9s de xsk_rcv_check(): * xs->pool y spinlock_init se sincronizan mediante barreras de memoria xsk_bind() -> xsk_is_bound(). * xsk_rcv_check() puede devolver verdadero al ejecutar xsk_release() o xsk_unbind_dev(); sin embargo, esto no causar\u00e1 ejecuci\u00f3ns de datos ni condiciones de ejecuci\u00f3n. xsk_unbind_dev() elimina el socket xdp de todos los mapas y espera a que se completen todas las operaciones de recepci\u00f3n pendientes. 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