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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published May 1, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 26, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del

mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without
following the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This
may lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the
list of keys in parallel with a key deletion:

refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Call Trace:

llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0
mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0
ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690
sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20
dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60
__sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Also, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by
mac802154_llsec_key_del():

unreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64):
comm "iwpan", pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de x.......".......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0
[] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0
[] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0
[] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80
[] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0
[] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0
[] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0
[] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440
[] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820
[] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60
[] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0
[] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0
[] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0
[] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Handle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function
mac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().

Note that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via
llsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a
list element). So it's safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list
entry after the RCU grace period elapses.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2024
Last updated Jun 26, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26961

GHSA ID

GHSA-7533-c28p-jp9p

Source code

No known source code

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