vulnerability
SUSE: CVE-2021-47238: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 05/21/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 02/18/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888101bc4c00 (size 32):
comm "syz-executor527", pid 360, jiffies 4294807421 (age 19.329s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac 14 14 bb 00 00 02 00 ................
backtrace:
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:558 [inline]
[] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:688 [inline]
[] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1971 [inline]
[] ip_mc_add_src+0x95f/0xdb0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2095
[] ip_mc_source+0x84c/0xea0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2416
[] do_ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1294 [inline]
[] ip_setsockopt+0x114b/0x30c0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1423
[] raw_setsockopt+0x13d/0x170 net/ipv4/raw.c:857
[] __sys_setsockopt+0x158/0x270 net/socket.c:2117
[] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2128 [inline]
[] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2125 [inline]
[] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2125
[] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
In commit 24803f38a5c0 ("igmp: do not remove igmp souce list info when set
link down"), the ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() was removed,
because it was also called in igmpv3_clear_delrec().
Rough callgraph:
inetdev_destroy
-> ip_mc_destroy_dev
-> igmpv3_clear_delrec
-> ip_mc_clear_src
-> RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL)
However, ip_mc_clear_src() called in igmpv3_clear_delrec() doesn't
release in_dev->mc_list->sources. And RCU_INIT_POINTER() assigns the
NULL to dev->ip_ptr. As a result, in_dev cannot be obtained through
inetdev_by_index() and then in_dev->mc_list->sources cannot be released
by ip_mc_del1_src() in the sock_close. Rough call sequence goes like:
sock_close
-> __sock_release
-> inet_release
-> ip_mc_drop_socket
-> inetdev_by_index
-> ip_mc_leave_src
-> ip_mc_del_src
-> ip_mc_del1_src
So we still need to call ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() to free
in_dev->mc_list->sources.
Solution(s)

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