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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvlan: ensure network headers are in skb linear part syzbot found that ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() was assuming the IPv6 network header isis present in skb->head [1] Add the needed pskb_network_may_pull() calls for both IPv4 and IPv6 handlers. [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47 __ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47 ipv6_addr_type include/net/ipv6.h:555 [inline] ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2616 [inline] ip6_route_output_flags+0x51/0x720 net/ipv6/route.c:2651 ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:93 [inline] ipvlan_route_v6_outbound+0x24e/0x520 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:476 ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:491 [inline] ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:541 [inline] ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:605 [inline] ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xd72/0x1780 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:671 ipvlan_start_xmit+0x5b/0x210 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:223 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5150 [inline] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5159 [inline] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3735 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa20 net/core/dev.c:3751 sch_direct_xmit+0x399/0xd40 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343 qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:408 [inline] __qdisc_run+0x14da/0x35d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:416 qdisc_run+0x141/0x4d0 include/net/pkt_sched.h:127 net_tx_action+0x78b/0x940 net/core/dev.c:5484 handle_softirqs+0x1a0/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:561 __do_softirq+0x14/0x1a kernel/softirq.c:595 do_softirq+0x9a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:462 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x9f/0xb0 kernel/softirq.c:389 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline] rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:919 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x2758/0x57d0 net/core/dev.c:4611 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3311 [inline] packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3132 [inline] packet_sendmsg+0x93e0/0xa7e0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3164 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Here, a boolean initiailized field is consulted to ensure that initialization tasks are only completed once. However, the field is mistakenly set to true during static initialization, so the initialization code is never reached.
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initialized = true;// perform initialization tasksThe following code intends to limit certain operations to the administrator only.
}$uid = ExtractUserID($state);# do stuffDoAdminThings();If the application is unable to extract the state information - say, due to a database timeout - then the $uid variable will not be explicitly set by the programmer. This will cause $uid to be regarded as equivalent to "0" in the conditional, allowing the original user to perform administrator actions. Even if the attacker cannot directly influence the state data, unexpected errors could cause incorrect privileges to be assigned to a user just by accident.
The following code intends to concatenate a string to a variable and print the string.
printf("%s", str);This might seem innocent enough, but str was not initialized, so it contains random memory. As a result, str[0] might not contain the null terminator, so the copy might start at an offset other than 0. The consequences can vary, depending on the underlying memory.
If a null terminator is found before str[8], then some bytes of random garbage will be printed before the "hello world" string. The memory might contain sensitive information from previous uses, such as a password (which might occur as a result of CWE-14 or CWE-244). In this example, it might not be a big deal, but consider what could happen if large amounts of memory are printed out before the null terminator is found.
If a null terminator isn't found before str[8], then a buffer overflow could occur, since strcat will first look for the null terminator, then copy 12 bytes starting with that location. Alternately, a buffer over-read might occur (CWE-126) if a null terminator isn't found before the end of the memory segment is reached, leading to a segmentation fault and crash.
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