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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 4, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 14, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nft_set_catchall_destroy()

We need to use list_for_each_entry_safe() iterator
because we can not access @catchall after kfree_rcu() call.

syzbot reported:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nft_set_catchall_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4486 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nft_set_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4504 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nft_set_destroy+0x3fd/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4493
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880716e5b80 by task syz-executor.3/8871

CPU: 1 PID: 8871 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x8d/0x2ed mm/kasan/report.c:247
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:433 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:450
nft_set_catchall_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4486 [inline]
nft_set_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4504 [inline]
nft_set_destroy+0x3fd/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4493
__nft_release_table+0x79f/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9626
nft_rcv_nl_event+0x4f8/0x670 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9688
notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:83
blocking_notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:318 [inline]
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x67/0x90 kernel/notifier.c:306
netlink_release+0xcb6/0x1dd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:788
__sock_release+0xcd/0x280 net/socket.c:649
sock_close+0x18/0x20 net/socket.c:1314
__fput+0x286/0x9f0 fs/file_table.c:280
task_work_run+0xdd/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:164
tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:175 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x27e/0x290 kernel/entry/common.c:207
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:289 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x60 kernel/entry/common.c:300
do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f75fbf28adb
Code: 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 45 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 63 fc ff ff 8b 7c 24 0c 41 89 c0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 89 44 24 0c e8 a1 fc ff ff 8b 44
RSP: 002b:00007ffd8da7ec10 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007f75fbf28adb
RDX: 00007f75fc08e828 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f75fc08a960 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f75fc08e830
R10: 00007ffd8da7ed10 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00000000002067c3
R13: 00007ffd8da7ed10 R14: 00007f75fc088f60 R15: 0000000000000032

Allocated by task 8886:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:472 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xa6/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:269 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ea/0x4a0 mm/slab.c:3575
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:590 [inline]
nft_setelem_catchall_insert net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5544 [inline]
nft_setelem_insert net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5562 [inline]
nft_add_set_elem+0x232e/0x2f40 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5936
nf_tables_newsetelem+0x6ff/0xbb0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6032
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x1710/0x25f0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:513
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:634 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x904/0xdf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/
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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 4, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 4, 2024
Last updated Jan 14, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47106

GHSA ID

GHSA-gmwj-428v-53wv

Source code

No known source code

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