CVE-2024-56643

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> dccp: Fix memory leak in dccp_feat_change_recv<br /> <br /> If dccp_feat_push_confirm() fails after new value for SP feature was accepted<br /> without reconciliation (&amp;#39;entry == NULL&amp;#39; branch), memory allocated for that value<br /> with dccp_feat_clone_sp_val() is never freed.<br /> <br /> Here is the kmemleak stack for this:<br /> <br /> unreferenced object 0xffff88801d4ab488 (size 8):<br /> comm "syz-executor310", pid 1127, jiffies 4295085598 (age 41.666s)<br /> hex dump (first 8 bytes):<br /> 01 b4 4a 1d 80 88 ff ff ..J.....<br /> backtrace:<br /> [] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128<br /> [] kmemdup include/linux/string.h:465 [inline]<br /> [] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:371 [inline]<br /> [] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:367 [inline]<br /> [] dccp_feat_change_recv net/dccp/feat.c:1145 [inline]<br /> [] dccp_feat_parse_options+0x1196/0x2180 net/dccp/feat.c:1416<br /> [] dccp_parse_options+0xa2a/0x1260 net/dccp/options.c:125<br /> [] dccp_rcv_state_process+0x197/0x13d0 net/dccp/input.c:650<br /> [] dccp_v4_do_rcv+0xf9/0x1a0 net/dccp/ipv4.c:688<br /> [] sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1041 [inline]<br /> [] __release_sock+0x139/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2570<br /> [] release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3111<br /> [] inet_wait_for_connect net/ipv4/af_inet.c:603 [inline]<br /> [] __inet_stream_connect+0x5d0/0xf70 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:696<br /> [] inet_stream_connect+0x53/0xa0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:735<br /> [] __sys_connect_file+0x15c/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1865<br /> [] __sys_connect+0x165/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1882<br /> [] __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1892 [inline]<br /> [] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1889 [inline]<br /> [] __x64_sys_connect+0x6e/0xb0 net/socket.c:1889<br /> [] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46<br /> [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1<br /> <br /> Clean up the allocated memory in case of dccp_feat_push_confirm() failure<br /> and bail out with an error reset code.<br /> <br /> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.