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High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer().

syzkaller reported a use-after-free of UDP kernel socket
in cleanup_bearer() without repro. [0][1]

When bearer_disable() calls tipc_udp_disable(), cleanup
of the UDP kernel socket is deferred by work calling
cleanup_bearer().

tipc_net_stop() waits for such works to finish by checking
tipc_net(net)->wq_count. However, the work decrements the
count too early before releasing the kernel socket,
unblocking cleanup_net() and resulting in use-after-free.

Let's move the decrement after releasing the socket in
cleanup_bearer().

[0]:
ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@000000009b3d1faf has 1/1 users at
sk_alloc+0x438/0x608
inet_create+0x4c8/0xcb0
__sock_create+0x350/0x6b8
sock_create_kern+0x58/0x78
udp_sock_create4+0x68/0x398
udp_sock_create+0x88/0xc8
tipc_udp_enable+0x5e8/0x848
__tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x84c/0xed8
tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x38/0x60
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x170/0x248
genl_rcv_msg+0x400/0x5b0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398
genl_rcv+0x44/0x68
netlink_unicast+0x678/0x8b0
netlink_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x898
____sys_sendmsg+0x500/0x830

[1]:
BUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in udp_hashslot include/net/udp.h:85 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in udp_lib_unhash+0x3b8/0x930 net/ipv4/udp.c:1979
udp_hashslot include/net/udp.h:85 [inline]
udp_lib_unhash+0x3b8/0x930 net/ipv4/udp.c:1979
sk_common_release+0xaf/0x3f0 net/core/sock.c:3820
inet_release+0x1e0/0x260 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:437
inet6_release+0x6f/0xd0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:489
__sock_release net/socket.c:658 [inline]
sock_release+0xa0/0x210 net/socket.c:686
cleanup_bearer+0x42d/0x4c0 net/tipc/udp_media.c:819
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xcaf/0x1c90 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0xf6c/0x1510 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x531/0x6b0 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Uninit was created at:
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2269 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4580 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x207/0xc40 mm/slub.c:4682
net_free net/core/net_namespace.c:454 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x16f2/0x19d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:647
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xcaf/0x1c90 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0xf6c/0x1510 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x531/0x6b0 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-00131-gf66ebf37d69c #7 91723d6f74857f70725e1583cba3cf4adc716cfa
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events cleanup_bearer

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 9, 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

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56642

GHSA ID

GHSA-wp52-h62r-qwj4

Source code

No known source code

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