CVE-2024-26597 — net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy

Affected: Linux

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

net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy

The variable rmnet_link_ops assign a *bigger* maxtype which leads to a global out-of-bounds read when parsing the netlink attributes. See bug trace below:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600 Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff92c438d0 by task syz-executor.6/84207

CPU: 0 PID: 84207 Comm: syz-executor.6 Tainted: G N 6.1.0 #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x8b/0xb3 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline] print_report+0x172/0x475 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:495 validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:386 [inline] __nla_validate_parse+0x24af/0x2750 lib/nlattr.c:600 __nla_parse+0x3e/0x50 lib/nlattr.c:697 nla_parse_nested_deprecated include/net/netlink.h:1248 [inline] __rtnl_newlink+0x50a/0x1880 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3485 rtnl_newlink+0x64/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3594 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43c/0xd70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6091 netlink_rcv_skb+0x14f/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] netlink_…

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CVE-2024-26597 — net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix global oob in rmnet_policy