CVE-2024-56661
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
27/12/2024
Last modified:
06/01/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
tipc: fix NULL deref in cleanup_bearer()<br />
<br />
syzbot found [1] that after blamed commit, ub->ubsock->sk<br />
was NULL when attempting the atomic_dec() :<br />
<br />
atomic_dec(&tipc_net(sock_net(ub->ubsock->sk))->wq_count);<br />
<br />
Fix this by caching the tipc_net pointer.<br />
<br />
[1]<br />
<br />
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI<br />
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]<br />
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5896 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-next-20241203-syzkaller #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024<br />
Workqueue: events cleanup_bearer<br />
RIP: 0010:read_pnet include/net/net_namespace.h:387 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:sock_net include/net/sock.h:655 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:cleanup_bearer+0x1f7/0x280 net/tipc/udp_media.c:820<br />
Code: 18 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 3c f7 99 f6 48 8b 1b 48 83 c3 30 e8 f0 e4 60 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1a f7 99 f6 49 83 c7 e8 48 8b 1b<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000410fb70 EFLAGS: 00010206<br />
RAX: 0000000000000006 RBX: 0000000000000030 RCX: ffff88802fe45a00<br />
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffc9000410f900<br />
RBP: ffff88807e1f0908 R08: ffffc9000410f907 R09: 1ffff92000821f20<br />
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000821f21 R12: ffff888031d19980<br />
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88807e1f0918<br />
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 0000556ca050b000 CR3: 0000000031c0c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
CPE | From | Up to |
---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.4.287:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.231:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15.174:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.120:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.66:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07b569eda6fe6a1e83be5a587abee12d1303f95e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/754ec823ee53422361da7958a8c8bf3275426912
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89ecda492d0a37fd00aaffc4151f1f44c26d93ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a771f349c95d3397636861a0a6462d4a7a7ecb25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a852c82eda4991e21610837aaa160965be71f5cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b04d86fff66b15c07505d226431f808c15b1703c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1d4dfb189a115734bff81c411bc58d9e348db7d