CVE-2022-3643

NameCVE-2022-3643
DescriptionGuests can trigger NIC interface reset/abort/crash via netback It is possible for a guest to trigger a NIC interface reset/abort/crash in a Linux based network backend by sending certain kinds of packets. It appears to be an (unwritten?) assumption in the rest of the Linux network stack that packet protocol headers are all contained within the linear section of the SKB and some NICs behave badly if this is not the case. This has been reported to occur with Cisco (enic) and Broadcom NetXtrem II BCM5780 (bnx2x) though it may be an issue with other NICs/drivers as well. In case the frontend is sending requests with split headers, netback will forward those violating above mentioned assumption to the networking core, resulting in said misbehavior.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3244-1, DLA-3245-1, ELA-774-1, ELA-776-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.16.84-1vulnerable
stretch (security)4.9.320-2vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch4.9.320-3vulnerable
buster4.19.249-2vulnerable
buster (security)4.19.304-1fixed
bullseye5.10.209-2fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.205-2fixed
bookworm6.1.76-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.69-1fixed
trixie6.6.15-2fixed
sid6.7.9-2fixed
linux-4.19 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)4.19.304-1~deb8u1fixed
stretch (security)4.19.232-1~deb9u1vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch4.19.304-1~deb9u1fixed
linux-5.10 (PTS)stretch (lts), stretch5.10.209-2~deb9u1fixed
buster (security)5.10.209-2~deb10u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcejessie(unfixed)end-of-life
linuxsourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
linuxsourcebuster4.19.269-1DLA-3245-1
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.158-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.1.4-1
linux-4.19sourcejessie4.19.269-1~deb8u1ELA-776-1
linux-4.19sourcestretch4.19.269-1~deb9u1ELA-776-1
linux-5.10sourcestretch5.10.158-2~deb9u1ELA-774-1
linux-5.10sourcebuster5.10.158-2~deb10u1DLA-3244-1

Notes

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-423.html
https://git.kernel.org/linus/ad7f402ae4f466647c3a669b8a6f3e5d4271c84a

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