{"id":"AZL-51111","summary":"CVE-2024-50035 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access\n\nsyzbot reported an issue in ppp_async_encode() [1]\n\nIn this case, pppoe_sendmsg() is called with a zero size.\nThen ppp_async_encode() is called with an empty skb.\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ppp_async_encode drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:545 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ppp_async_push+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:675\n  ppp_async_encode drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:545 [inline]\n  ppp_async_push+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:675\n  ppp_async_send+0x130/0x1b0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:634\n  ppp_channel_bridge_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2280 [inline]\n  ppp_input+0x1f1/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2304\n  pppoe_rcv_core+0x1d3/0x720 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379\n  sk_backlog_rcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1113\n  __release_sock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3072\n  release_sock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3626\n  pppoe_sendmsg+0x2b8/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:903\n  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline]\n  __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744\n  ____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602\n  ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656\n  __sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742\n  __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline]\n  __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768\n  x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nUninit was created at:\n  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4092 [inline]\n  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4135 [inline]\n  kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4187\n  kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:587\n  __alloc_skb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:678\n  alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]\n  sock_wmalloc+0xfe/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:2732\n  pppoe_sendmsg+0x3a7/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:867\n  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline]\n  __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744\n  ____sys_sendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602\n  ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656\n  __sys_sendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742\n  __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline]\n  __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768\n  x64_sys_call+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5411 Comm: syz.1.14 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller-00165-g360c1f1f24c6 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024","modified":"2026-04-01T05:17:40.302229Z","published":"2024-10-21T20:15:16Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-50035"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50035"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.173.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-51111.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:H/I:N/A:H"}]}