CVE-2024-40954

CVE Details

Release Date:

2024-07-12

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer, when socket creation fails\nIt is possible to trigger a use-after-free by:\n* attaching an fentry probe to __sock_release() and the probe calling the\nbpf_get_socket_cookie() helper\n* running traceroute -I 1.1.1.1 on a freshly booted VM\nA KASAN enabled kernel will log something like below (decoded and stripped):\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888007110dd8 by task traceroute/299\nCPU: 2 PID: 299 Comm: traceroute Tainted: G E 6.10.0-rc2+ #2\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n\ndump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117 (discriminator 1))\nprint_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:488)\n? __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)\nkasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:603)\n? __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)\nkasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:183 mm/kasan/generic.c:189)\n__sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)\nbpf_get_socket_ptr_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:94 ./include/linux/sock_diag.h:42 net/core/filter.c:5094 net/core/filter.c:5092)\nbpf_prog_875642cf11f1d139___sock_release+0x6e/0x8e\nbpf_trampoline_6442506592+0x47/0xaf\n__sock_release (net/socket.c:652)\n__sock_create (net/socket.c:1601)\n...\nAllocated by task 299 on cpu 2 at 78.328492s:\nkasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)\nkasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:68)\n__kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:312 mm/kasan/common.c:338)\nkmem_cache_alloc_noprof (mm/slub.c:3941 mm/slub.c:4000 mm/slub.c:4007)\nsk_prot_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2075)\nsk_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2134)\ninet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:327 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)\n__sock_create (net/socket.c:1572)\n__sys_socket (net/socket.c:1660 net/socket.c:1644 net/socket.c:1706)\n__x64_sys_socket (net/socket.c:1718)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\nFreed by task 299 on cpu 2 at 78.328502s:\nkasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)\nkasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:68)\nkasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:582)\npoison_slab_object (mm/kasan/common.c:242)\n__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:256)\nkmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:4437 mm/slub.c:4511)\n__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2117 net/core/sock.c:2208)\ninet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:397 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)\n__sock_create (net/socket.c:1572)\n__sys_socket (net/socket.c:1660 net/socket.c:1644 net/socket.c:1706)\n__x64_sys_socket (net/socket.c:1718)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\nFix this by clearing the struct socket reference in sk_common_release() to cover\nall protocol families create functions, which may already attached the\nreference to the sk object with sock_init_data().

See more information about CVE-2024-40954 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS Scoring

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.1 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.5	CVSS Vector:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel)	ELSA-2024-5363	2024-08-14