{"id":"AZL-67887","summary":"CVE-2022-48744 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Avoid field-overflowing memcpy()\n\nIn preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time\nfield bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid\nintentionally writing across neighboring fields.\n\nUse flexible arrays instead of zero-element arrays (which look like they\nare always overflowing) and split the cross-field memcpy() into two halves\nthat can be appropriately bounds-checked by the compiler.\n\nWe were doing:\n\n\t#define ETH_HLEN  14\n\t#define VLAN_HLEN  4\n\t...\n\t#define MLX5E_XDP_MIN_INLINE (ETH_HLEN + VLAN_HLEN)\n\t...\n        struct mlx5e_tx_wqe      *wqe  = mlx5_wq_cyc_get_wqe(wq, pi);\n\t...\n        struct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg  *eseg = &wqe-\u003eeth;\n        struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg *dseg = wqe-\u003edata;\n\t...\n\tmemcpy(eseg-\u003einline_hdr.start, xdptxd-\u003edata, MLX5E_XDP_MIN_INLINE);\n\ntarget is wqe-\u003eeth.inline_hdr.start (which the compiler sees as being\n2 bytes in size), but copying 18, intending to write across start\n(really vlan_tci, 2 bytes). The remaining 16 bytes get written into\nwqe-\u003edata[0], covering byte_count (4 bytes), lkey (4 bytes), and addr\n(8 bytes).\n\nstruct mlx5e_tx_wqe {\n        struct mlx5_wqe_ctrl_seg   ctrl;                 /*     0    16 */\n        struct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg    eth;                  /*    16    16 */\n        struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg   data[];               /*    32     0 */\n\n        /* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */\n        /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */\n};\n\nstruct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg {\n        u8                         swp_outer_l4_offset;  /*     0     1 */\n        u8                         swp_outer_l3_offset;  /*     1     1 */\n        u8                         swp_inner_l4_offset;  /*     2     1 */\n        u8                         swp_inner_l3_offset;  /*     3     1 */\n        u8                         cs_flags;             /*     4     1 */\n        u8                         swp_flags;            /*     5     1 */\n        __be16                     mss;                  /*     6     2 */\n        __be32                     flow_table_metadata;  /*     8     4 */\n        union {\n                struct {\n                        __be16     sz;                   /*    12     2 */\n                        u8         start[2];             /*    14     2 */\n                } inline_hdr;                            /*    12     4 */\n                struct {\n                        __be16     type;                 /*    12     2 */\n                        __be16     vlan_tci;             /*    14     2 */\n                } insert;                                /*    12     4 */\n                __be32             trailer;              /*    12     4 */\n        };                                               /*    12     4 */\n\n        /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */\n        /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */\n};\n\nstruct mlx5_wqe_data_seg {\n        __be32                     byte_count;           /*     0     4 */\n        __be32                     lkey;                 /*     4     4 */\n        __be64                     addr;                 /*     8     8 */\n\n        /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */\n        /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */\n};\n\nSo, split the memcpy() so the compiler can reason about the buffer\nsizes.\n\n\"pahole\" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct mlx5e_tx_wqe\nnor struct mlx5e_umr_wqe. \"objdump -d\" shows no meaningful object\ncode changes (i.e. only source line number induced differences and\noptimizations).","modified":"2026-04-01T05:21:18.378952Z","published":"2024-06-20T12:15:12Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-48744"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48744"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.15.200.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-67887.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}