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Red Hat: CVE-2024-56675: kernel: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jan 28, 2026

Description

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

bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors

Uprobes always use bpf_prog_run_array_uprobe() under tasks-trace-RCU
protection. But it is possible to attach a non-sleepable BPF program to a
uprobe, and non-sleepable BPF programs are freed via normal RCU (see
__bpf_prog_put_noref()). This leads to UAF of the bpf_prog because a normal
RCU grace period does not imply a tasks-trace-RCU grace period.

Fix it by explicitly waiting for a tasks-trace-RCU grace period after
removing the attachment of a bpf_prog to a perf_event.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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