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

High severity Unreviewed Published Aug 26, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 27, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port

syzbot hit a use-after-free[1] which is caused because the bridge doesn't
make sure that all previous garbage has been collected when removing a
port. What happens is:
CPU 1 CPU 2
start gc cycle remove port
acquire gc lock first
wait for lock
call br_multicasg_gc() directly
acquire lock now but free port
the port can be freed
while grp timers still
running

Make sure all previous gc cycles have finished by using flush_work before
freeing the port.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888071d6d000 by task syz.5.1232/9699

CPU: 1 PID: 9699 Comm: syz.5.1232 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5-syzkaller-00021-g24ca36a562d6 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
call_timer_fn+0x1a3/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1792
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1843 [inline]
__run_timers+0x74b/0xaf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2417
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2428 [inline]
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2421 [inline]
run_timer_base+0x111/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2437

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 26, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 26, 2024
Last updated Aug 27, 2024

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-2024-44934

GHSA ID

GHSA-3pph-x43c-2v7f

Source code

No known source code

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