{"id":"CVE-2024-57802","summary":"netrom: check buffer length before accessing it","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetrom: check buffer length before accessing it\n\nSyzkaller reports an uninit value read from ax25cmp when sending raw message\nthrough ieee802154 implementation.\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119\n ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119\n nr_dev_get+0x20e/0x450 net/netrom/nr_route.c:601\n nr_route_frame+0x1a2/0xfc0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:774\n nr_xmit+0x5a/0x1c0 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:144\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]\n raw_sendmsg+0x654/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:299\n ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523\n kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560\n __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2780\n sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1884 [inline]\n raw_sendmsg+0x36d/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:282\n ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 5037 Comm: syz-executor166 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7-syzkaller-00003-gfbafc3e621c3 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023\n=====================================================\n\nThis issue occurs because the skb buffer is too small, and it's actual\nallocation is aligned. This hides an actual issue, which is that nr_route_frame\ndoes not validate the buffer size before using it.\n\nFix this issue by checking skb-\u003elen before accessing any fields in skb-\u003edata.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:32:42.708562450Z","published":"2025-01-15T13:10:25.685Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:0428-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0499-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0557-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0564-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20165-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20248-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1","USN-7379-2","USN-7380-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/57xxx/CVE-2024-57802.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba7f80d98d4965349cfcd258dd78418496c1625"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e9f54a14f2887be8634fb85cd2f13bec18a184"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769e36c2119a51070faf58819c58274f57a088db"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a110332ae268d0b005247c3b9a7d703b875c49"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fd163aed2edd967a244499754dec991d8b4c7d"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6befa7c569787f53440274bbed1405fc07738d"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f647d72245aadce30618f4c8fd3803904418dbec"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/57xxx/CVE-2024-57802.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57802"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2"},{"fixed":"64e9f54a14f2887be8634fb85cd2f13bec18a184"},{"fixed":"cf6befa7c569787f53440274bbed1405fc07738d"},{"fixed":"769e36c2119a51070faf58819c58274f57a088db"},{"fixed":"78a110332ae268d0b005247c3b9a7d703b875c49"},{"fixed":"f647d72245aadce30618f4c8fd3803904418dbec"},{"fixed":"3ba7f80d98d4965349cfcd258dd78418496c1625"},{"fixed":"a4fd163aed2edd967a244499754dec991d8b4c7d"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-57802.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}