1.4 KiB
CVE-2024-42246
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socketWhen using a BPF program on kernel_connect(), the call can return -EPERM. Thiscauses xs_tcp_setup_socket() to loop forever, filling up the syslog and causingthe kernel to potentially freeze up.Neil suggested: This will propagate -EPERM up into other layers which might not be ready to handle it. It might be safer to map EPERM to an error we would be more likely to expect from the network system - such as ECONNREFUSED or ENETDOWN.ECONNREFUSED as error seems reasonable. For programs setting a different errorcan be out of reach (see handling in 4fbac77d2d09) in particular on kernelswhich do not have f10d05966196 ("bpf: Make BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY return -errinstead of allow boolean"), thus given that it is better to simply remap forconsistent behavior. UDP does handle EPERM in xs_udp_send_request().
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