vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-44934): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Added
Nov 12, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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

net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port

syzbot hit a use-after-free[1] which is caused because the bridge doesn't
make sure that all previous garbage has been collected when removing a
port. What happens is:
CPU 1 CPU 2
start gc cycle remove port
acquire gc lock first
wait for lock
call br_multicasg_gc() directly
acquire lock now but free port
the port can be freed
while grp timers still
running

Make sure all previous gc cycles have finished by using flush_work before
freeing the port.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888071d6d000 by task syz.5.1232/9699

CPU: 1 PID: 9699 Comm: syz.5.1232 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5-syzkaller-00021-g24ca36a562d6 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
call_timer_fn+0x1a3/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1792
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1843 [inline]
__run_timers+0x74b/0xaf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2417
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2428 [inline]
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2421 [inline]
run_timer_base+0x111/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2437

Solutions

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