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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-42109): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-42109): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/30/2024
Created
09/17/2024
Added
09/16/2024
Modified
09/26/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier syzbot reports: KASAN: slab-uaf in nft_ctx_update include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1831 KASAN: slab-uaf in nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9530 KASAN: slab-uaf int nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x152b/0x1750 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9597 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802b0051c4 by task kworker/1:1/45 [..] Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work Call Trace: nft_ctx_update include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1831 [inline] nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9530 [inline] nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x152b/0x1750 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9597 Problem is that the notifier does a conditional flush, but its possible that the table-to-be-removed is still referenced by transactions being processed by the worker, so we need to flush unconditionally. We could make the flush_work depend on whether we found a table to delete in nf-next to avoid the flush for most cases. AFAICS this problem is only exposed in nf-next, with commit e169285f8c56 ("netfilter: nf_tables: do not store nft_ctx in transaction objects"), with this commit applied there is an unconditional fetch of table->family which is whats triggering the above splat.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1035-xilinx-zynqmp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1052-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1066-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1066-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1067-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1068-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1069-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1072-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1072-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-121-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-121-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-121-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-121-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-121-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-cvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04c
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04d
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-nolpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-xilinx-zynqmp

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