CVE-2026-64459
Fecha de publicación:
25/07/2026
*** Pendiente de traducción *** In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
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tcp: restore RCU grace period in tcp_ao_destroy_sock<br />
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Commit 51e547e8c89c ("tcp: Free TCP-AO/TCP-MD5 info/keys without RCU")<br />
removed the call_rcu() callback from tcp_ao_destroy_sock(), arguing that<br />
"the destruction of info/keys is delayed until the socket destructor"<br />
and therefore "no one can discover it anymore".<br />
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That argument does not hold for the call site in tcp_connect()<br />
(net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4327-4332). At that point the socket is in<br />
TCP_SYN_SENT, has already been inserted into the inet ehash by<br />
inet_hash_connect() in tcp_v4_connect(), and is therefore very much<br />
discoverable: any softirq running tcp_v4_rcv() on another CPU can take<br />
the socket out of the ehash, walk into tcp_inbound_hash(), and load<br />
tp->ao_info via implicit RCU before bh_lock_sock_nested() is taken on<br />
the destroying CPU.<br />
<br />
The reader path then enters __tcp_ao_do_lookup() (net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c:208)<br />
which re-loads tp->ao_info via rcu_dereference_check(); the re-load can<br />
still observe the (about-to-be-freed) pointer because there is no<br />
synchronize_rcu() between rcu_assign_pointer(tp->ao_info, NULL) and<br />
tcp_ao_info_free() in tcp_ao_destroy_sock(). The captured pointer is<br />
then walked at line 223:<br />
<br />
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(key, &ao->head, node, ...)<br />
<br />
The writer&#39;s synchronous kfree() is free to complete between the line<br />
218 re-fetch and the line 223 hlist iteration. The slab is reused<br />
(or simply LIST_POISON1-stamped if not yet reused) and the iteration<br />
walks attacker-controlled or poison memory in softirq context.<br />
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Reproducer (no debug shim, stock x86_64 v7.1-rc2 SMP+KASAN, QEMU+KVM):<br />
an unprivileged uid=1000 process inside CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNET<br />
installs TCP_MD5SIG + TCP_AO_ADD_KEY on a TCP socket, sprays forged<br />
TCP-AO segments toward its eventual 4-tuple via raw sockets, then<br />
calls connect(). The md5-wins reconciliation in tcp_connect() fires<br />
tcp_ao_destroy_sock(); the softirq backlog reader on the loopback<br />
NAPI path crashes on the freed ao->head.first walk:<br />
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Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical<br />
address 0xfbd59c000000002f<br />
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range<br />
[0xdead000000000178-0xdead00000000017f]<br />
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 100 Comm: repro_userns<br />
RIP: 0010:__tcp_ao_do_lookup+0x107/0x1c0<br />
Call Trace: <br />
__tcp_ao_do_lookup+0x107/0x1c0<br />
tcp_ao_inbound_lookup.constprop.0+0x12a/0x200<br />
tcp_inbound_ao_hash+0x5ea/0x1520<br />
tcp_inbound_hash+0x7ce/0x1240<br />
tcp_v4_rcv+0x1e7a/0x3e10<br />
...<br />
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Restore the RCU grace period: re-add struct rcu_head to tcp_ao_info<br />
and replace the synchronous tcp_ao_info_free() with a call_rcu()<br />
callback. Readers that captured tp->ao_info before rcu_assign_pointer<br />
NULLed it now see the object remain valid until rcu_read_unlock().<br />
With the patch applied the reproducer runs cleanly for 2000 iterations<br />
on the same kernel build.
Gravedad: Pendiente de análisis
Última modificación:
25/07/2026