{"id":"CVE-2024-26805","summary":"netlink: Fix kernel-infoleak-after-free in __skb_datagram_iter","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: Fix kernel-infoleak-after-free in __skb_datagram_iter\n\nsyzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:\n\nnetlink_to_full_skb() creates a new `skb` and puts the `skb-\u003edata`\npassed as a 1st arg of netlink_to_full_skb() onto new `skb`. The data\nsize is specified as `len` and passed to skb_put_data(). This `len`\nis based on `skb-\u003eend` that is not data offset but buffer offset. The\n`skb-\u003eend` contains data and tailroom. Since the tailroom is not\ninitialized when the new `skb` created, KMSAN detects uninitialized\nmemory area when copying the data.\n\nThis patch resolved this issue by correct the len from `skb-\u003eend` to\n`skb-\u003elen`, which is the actual data offset.\n\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in copy_to_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:24 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in iterate_ubuf include/linux/iov_iter.h:29 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in iterate_and_advance2 include/linux/iov_iter.h:245 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in iterate_and_advance include/linux/iov_iter.h:271 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak-after-free in _copy_to_iter+0x364/0x2520 lib/iov_iter.c:186\n instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\n copy_to_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:24 [inline]\n iterate_ubuf include/linux/iov_iter.h:29 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