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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: annotate lockless accesses to nlk->max_recvmsg_len\n\nsyzbot reported a data-race in data-race in netlink_recvmsg() [1]\n\nIndeed, netlink_recvmsg() can be run concurrently,\nand netlink_dump() also needs protection.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in netlink_recvmsg / netlink_recvmsg\n\nread to 0xffff888141840b38 of 8 bytes by task 23057 on cpu 0:\nnetlink_recvmsg+0xea/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1988\nsock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline]\nsock_recvmsg net/socket.c:1038 [inline]\n__sys_recvfrom+0x1ee/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2194\n__do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2212 [inline]\n__se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2208 [inline]\n__x64_sys_recvfrom+0x78/0x90 net/socket.c:2208\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nwrite to 0xffff888141840b38 of 8 bytes by task 23037 on cpu 1:\nnetlink_recvmsg+0x114/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1989\nsock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline]\nsock_recvmsg net/socket.c:1038 [inline]\n____sys_recvmsg+0x156/0x310 net/socket.c:2720\n___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2762 [inline]\ndo_recvmmsg+0x2e5/0x710 net/socket.c:2856\n__sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2935 [inline]\n__do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2958 [inline]\n__se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2951 [inline]\n__x64_sys_recvmmsg+0xe2/0x160 net/socket.c:2951\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nvalue changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0x0000000000001000\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 1 PID: 23037 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc4-syzkaller-00195-g5a57b48fdfcb #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/02/2023"
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"value": "AV:L - The vulnerability is reached through recvmsg()/recvmmsg() syscalls on an AF_NETLINK socket, which requires local system access. Netlink is explicitly a local attack vector.\nAC:L - The attacker owns both sides of the race — one thread loops recvmsg() with large user-controlled lengths while another drives netlink_dump() on the same fd — and can retry indefinitely with no condition outside their control.\nPR:L - netlink_create() performs no capability check, so any unprivileged user can open a NETLINK_ROUTE socket and start an RTM_GETLINK dump; no CAP_NET_ADMIN, root, or namespace privilege is needed.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the race entirely from their own threads via ordinary socket syscalls; no victim action or interaction is required.\nS:U - The race and its consequences are confined to the kernel's own memory and the attacking process's netlink socket, within a single security authority.\nC:H - A latched oversized alloc_size drives an unchecked, signed skb_reserve() that can shift skb->data below skb->head, so the dump skb copied back to userspace can expose out-of-bounds kernel heap memory adjacent to the allocation.\nI:H - A negative skb_reserve() moves skb->tail before the allocated buffer and the dump callback then writes netlink message content there, giving an out-of-bounds heap write with attacker-influenced data — a control-flow-corruption primitive.\nA:H - The race defeats the 32 KB clamp, letting an unprivileged user force repeated multi-megabyte high-order skb allocations (memory pressure/OOM), and the out-of-bounds skb pointer arithmetic causes heap corruption and kernel oops/panic."
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