CVE-2022-3643

Summary

CVECVE-2022-3643
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-07 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-29 15:15:00 UTC
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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Broadcom Bcm5780 - All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3245-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0099-1 ≈ Packet Storm packetstormsecurity.com
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 423 v2 (CVE-2022-3643) - Guests can trigger NIC interface reset/abort/crash via netback MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3244-1] linux-5.10 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-423.txt MISC xenbits.xenproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181438 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-3643)
  • 181440 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3244-1)
  • 181565 Debian Security Update for linux (DLA 3245-1)
  • 199103 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5803-1)
  • 199105 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5804-1)
  • 199106 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5804-2)
  • 199111 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IBM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5808-1)
  • 199118 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5814-1)
  • 199121 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5813-1)
  • 199132 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-5829-1)
  • 199136 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure CVM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5831-1)
  • 199137 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5830-1)
  • 199138 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-5832-1)
  • 199160 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5860-1)
  • 199165 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Dell300x) Vulnerabilities (USN-5861-1)
  • 199179 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5877-1)
  • 199180 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5875-1)
  • 199183 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (HWE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5879-1)
  • 199213 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (BlueField) Vulnerabilities (USN-5918-1)
  • 199490 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5802-1)
  • 199519 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5863-1)
  • 199547 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (AWS) Vulnerabilities (USN-5794-1)
  • 354668 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-025
  • 354669 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-012
  • 354670 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-041
  • 354736 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2023-1932
  • 354842 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2023-1706
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 378468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-20230042)
  • 378512 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0042)
  • 379435 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2024:0012)
  • 6140027 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-qqmh-8q8r-6p7p)
  • 6140061 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-qqmh-8q8r-6p7p)
  • 753014 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4505-1)
  • 753020 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4585-1)
  • 753034 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4504-1)
  • 753038 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4573-1)
  • 753039 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4574-1)
  • 753047 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4566-1)
  • 753060 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4615-1)
  • 753063 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1)
  • 753562 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0134-1)
  • 753583 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0152-1)
  • 753688 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0406-1)
  • 904975 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.79.1-1.cm2 (12545)
  • 904995 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.80.1-1.cm2 (12550)
  • 905010 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.81.1-1.cm2 (12552)
  • 905045 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.74.1-1.cm2 (12538)
  • 905047 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.72.1-1.cm2 (12533)
  • 905082 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.48.1-4.cm2 (12521)
  • 905134 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.82.1-1.cm2 (12556)
  • 905147 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for livepatch-5.15.77.1-1.cm2 (12539)
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