vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52924): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Feb 5, 2025 | Feb 11, 2025 | Oct 16, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: don't skip expired elements during walk
There is an asymmetry between commit/abort and preparation phase if the
following conditions are met:
1. set is a verdict map ("1.2.3.4 : jump foo")
2. timeouts are enabled
In this case, following sequence is problematic:
1. element E in set S refers to chain C
2. userspace requests removal of set S
3. kernel does a set walk to decrement chain->use count for all elements
from preparation phase
4. kernel does another set walk to remove elements from the commit phase
(or another walk to do a chain->use increment for all elements from
abort phase)
If E has already expired in 1), it will be ignored during list walk, so its use count
won't have been changed.
Then, when set is culled, ->destroy callback will zap the element via
nf_tables_set_elem_destroy(), but this function is only safe for
elements that have been deactivated earlier from the preparation phase:
lack of earlier deactivate removes the element but leaks the chain use
count, which results in a WARN splat when the chain gets removed later,
plus a leak of the nft_chain structure.
Update pipapo_get() not to skip expired elements, otherwise flush
command reports bogus ENOENT errors.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2023-52924
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52924
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/24138933b97b055d486e8064b4a1721702442a9b
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1da4874d05da1526b11b82fc7f3c7ac38749ddf8
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24138933b97b055d486e8064b4a1721702442a9b
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59dab3bf0b8fc08eb802721c0532f13dd89209b8
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c7e658a36f8b1522bd3586d8137e5f93a25ddc5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94313a196b44184b5b52c1876da6a537701b425a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b15ea4017af82011dd55225ce77cce3d4dfc169c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd156ce9553dcaf2d6ee2c825d1a5a1718e86524
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52924
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