vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-56642): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
Mar 28, 2025
Modified
May 29, 2025

Description

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

tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer().

syzkaller reported a use-after-free of UDP kernel socket
in cleanup_bearer() without repro. [0][1]

When bearer_disable() calls tipc_udp_disable(), cleanup
of the UDP kernel socket is deferred by work calling
cleanup_bearer().

tipc_exit_net() waits for such works to finish by checking
tipc_net(net)->wq_count. However, the work decrements the
count too early before releasing the kernel socket,
unblocking cleanup_net() and resulting in use-after-free.

Let's move the decrement after releasing the socket in
cleanup_bearer().

[0]:
ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@000000009b3d1faf has 1/1 users at
sk_alloc+0x438/0x608
inet_create+0x4c8/0xcb0
__sock_create+0x350/0x6b8
sock_create_kern+0x58/0x78
udp_sock_create4+0x68/0x398
udp_sock_create+0x88/0xc8
tipc_udp_enable+0x5e8/0x848
__tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x84c/0xed8
tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x38/0x60
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x170/0x248
genl_rcv_msg+0x400/0x5b0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398
genl_rcv+0x44/0x68
netlink_unicast+0x678/0x8b0
netlink_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x898
____sys_sendmsg+0x500/0x830

[1]:
BUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in udp_hashslot include/net/udp.h:85 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in udp_lib_unhash+0x3b8/0x930 net/ipv4/udp.c:1979
udp_hashslot include/net/udp.h:85 [inline]
udp_lib_unhash+0x3b8/0x930 net/ipv4/udp.c:1979
sk_common_release+0xaf/0x3f0 net/core/sock.c:3820
inet_release+0x1e0/0x260 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:437
inet6_release+0x6f/0xd0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:489
__sock_release net/socket.c:658 [inline]
sock_release+0xa0/0x210 net/socket.c:686
cleanup_bearer+0x42d/0x4c0 net/tipc/udp_media.c:819
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xcaf/0x1c90 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0xf6c/0x1510 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x531/0x6b0 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Uninit was created at:
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2269 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4580 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x207/0xc40 mm/slub.c:4682
net_free net/core/net_namespace.c:454 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x16f2/0x19d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:647
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xcaf/0x1c90 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0xf6c/0x1510 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x531/0x6b0 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-00131-gf66ebf37d69c #7 91723d6f74857f70725e1583cba3cf4adc716cfa
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events cleanup_bearer

Solution(s)

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