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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: keep alloc_hash updated after hash allocation\n\nIn commit 599be01ee567 (\"net_sched: fix an OOB access in cls_tcindex\")\nI moved cp->hash calculation before the first\ntcindex_alloc_perfect_hash(), but cp->alloc_hash is left untouched.\nThis difference could lead to another out of bound access.\n\ncp->alloc_hash should always be the size allocated, we should\nupdate it after this tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash()."
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"value": "AV:L - The bug is triggered through the tc filter netlink configuration path (RTM_NEWTFILTER → tc_new_tfilter → tcindex_change → tcindex_set_parms), not by processing network packets. Exploitation requires local netlink/syscall access to configure cls_tcindex.\nAC:L - An attacker fully controls both the old and new hash sizes and the filter handle via netlink attributes, so shrinking a perfect hash while using a handle past the newly allocated size reliably produces the OOB access with no race or external conditions.\nPR:L - tc_new_tfilter requires CAP_NET_ADMIN checked with netlink_ns_capable against the network namespace's user_ns, which an unprivileged user can obtain via user namespaces (unshare -Urn) without real root in the init namespace.\nUI:N - The attacker creates and modifies their own tcindex filters in a network namespace they control; no victim action is required.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the host kernel privilege boundary (local memory corruption / privilege escalation) and does not cross VM, IOMMU, or other distinct security authorities.\nC:H - Stale alloc_hash allows OOB reads through tcindex_get/tcindex_lookup (perfect + handle beyond the allocated array), and the heap OOB can be leveraged for arbitrary kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - tcindex_set_parms does r = cp->perfect + handle then writes result/exts into that slot; with handle past the newly allocated hash this is a controlled heap out-of-bounds write enabling memory corruption and control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The out-of-bounds access was caught by syzbot as a kernel memory-safety failure and can produce oops/panic or heap corruption leading to a crash even without full exploitation."
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