vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2021-47248: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
05/21/2024
Added
08/09/2024
Modified
02/18/2025

Description

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

udp: fix race between close() and udp_abort()

Kaustubh reported and diagnosed a panic in udp_lib_lookup().
The root cause is udp_abort() racing with close(). Both
racing functions acquire the socket lock, but udp{v6}_destroy_sock()
release it before performing destructive actions.

We can't easily extend the socket lock scope to avoid the race,
instead use the SOCK_DEAD flag to prevent udp_abort from doing
any action when the critical race happens.

Diagnosed-and-tested-by: Kaustubh Pandey

Solution(s)

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