CVE-2024-44987

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-416 Use After Free
Publication date:
04/09/2024
Last modified:
03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> ipv6: prevent UAF in ip6_send_skb()<br /> <br /> syzbot reported an UAF in ip6_send_skb() [1]<br /> <br /> After ip6_local_out() has returned, we no longer can safely<br /> dereference rt, unless we hold rcu_read_lock().<br /> <br /> A similar issue has been fixed in commit<br /> a688caa34beb ("ipv6: take rcu lock in rawv6_send_hdrinc()")<br /> <br /> Another potential issue in ip6_finish_output2() is handled in a<br /> separate patch.<br /> <br /> [1]<br /> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip6_send_skb+0x18d/0x230 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1964<br /> Read of size 8 at addr ffff88806dde4858 by task syz.1.380/6530<br /> <br /> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6530 Comm: syz.1.380 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc3-syzkaller-00306-gdf6cbc62cc9b #0<br /> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:93 [inline]<br /> dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:119<br /> print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]<br /> print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488<br /> kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601<br /> ip6_send_skb+0x18d/0x230 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1964<br /> rawv6_push_pending_frames+0x75c/0x9e0 net/ipv6/raw.c:588<br /> rawv6_sendmsg+0x19c7/0x23c0 net/ipv6/raw.c:926<br /> sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]<br /> __sock_sendmsg+0x1a6/0x270 net/socket.c:745<br /> sock_write_iter+0x2dd/0x400 net/socket.c:1160<br /> do_iter_readv_writev+0x60a/0x890<br /> vfs_writev+0x37c/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:971<br /> do_writev+0x1b1/0x350 fs/read_write.c:1018<br /> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]<br /> do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br /> RIP: 0033:0x7f936bf79e79<br /> Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48<br /> RSP: 002b:00007f936cd7f038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014<br /> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f936c115f80 RCX: 00007f936bf79e79<br /> RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 0000000000000004<br /> RBP: 00007f936bfe7916 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000<br /> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000<br /> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f936c115f80 R15: 00007fff2860a7a8<br /> <br /> <br /> Allocated by task 6530:<br /> kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]<br /> kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68<br /> unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:312 [inline]<br /> __kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:338<br /> kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]<br /> slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3988 [inline]<br /> slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4037 [inline]<br /> kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x135/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4044<br /> dst_alloc+0x12b/0x190 net/core/dst.c:89<br /> ip6_blackhole_route+0x59/0x340 net/ipv6/route.c:2670<br /> make_blackhole net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3120 [inline]<br /> xfrm_lookup_route+0xd1/0x1c0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3313<br /> ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x13e/0x180 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1257<br /> rawv6_sendmsg+0x1283/0x23c0 net/ipv6/raw.c:898<br /> sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]<br /> __sock_sendmsg+0x1a6/0x270 net/socket.c:745<br /> ____sys_sendmsg+0x525/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2597<br /> ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2651 [inline]<br /> __sys_sendmsg+0x2b0/0x3a0 net/socket.c:2680<br /> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]<br /> do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br /> <br /> Freed by task 45:<br /> kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]<br /> kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68<br /> kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:579<br /> poison_slab_object+0xe0/0x150 mm/kasan/common.c:240<br /> __kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:256<br /> kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:184 [inline]<br /> slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2252 [inline]<br /> slab_free mm/slub.c:4473 [inline]<br /> kmem_cache_free+0x145/0x350 mm/slub.c:4548<br /> dst_destroy+0x2ac/0x460 net/core/dst.c:124<br /> rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2569 [inline]<br /> rcu_core+0xafd/0x1830 kernel/rcu/tree.<br /> ---truncated---

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.32 (including) 4.19.321 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.20 (including) 5.4.283 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.5 (including) 5.10.225 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.166 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.1.107 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2 (including) 6.6.48 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.7 (including) 6.10.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*