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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-35895): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 05/19/2024 | 07/12/2024 | 01/28/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Prevent lock inversion deadlock in map delete elem
syzkaller started using corpuses where a BPF tracing program deletes
elements from a sockmap/sockhash map. Because BPF tracing programs can be
invoked from any interrupt context, locks taken during a map_delete_elem
operation must be hardirq-safe. Otherwise a deadlock due to lock inversion
is possible, as reported by lockdep:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock);
local_irq_disable();
lock(&host->lock);
lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock);
lock(&host->lock);
Locks in sockmap are hardirq-unsafe by design. We expects elements to be
deleted from sockmap/sockhash only in task (normal) context with interrupts
enabled, or in softirq context.
Detect when map_delete_elem operation is invoked from a context which is
_not_ hardirq-unsafe, that is interrupts are disabled, and bail out with an
error.
Note that map updates are not affected by this issue. BPF verifier does not
allow updating sockmap/sockhash from a BPF tracing program today.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-35895
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-35895
- UBUNTU-USN-6893-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6893-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6893-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6896-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6896-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6896-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6896-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6896-5
- UBUNTU-USN-6898-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6898-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6898-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6898-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6917-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6918-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6919-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6927-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7019-1

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