UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26923
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() Garbage collector does not take into account the risk of embryo getting enqueued during the garbage collection. If such embryo has a peer that carries SCM_RIGHTS, two consecutive passes of scan_children() may see a different set of children. Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight count, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list. sockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM S is an unconnected socket L is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable V's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped connect(S, addr) sendmsg(S, [V]); close(V) __unix_gc() ---------------- ------------------------- ----------- NS = unix_create1() skb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS) L = unix_find_other(addr) unix_state_lock(L) unix_peer(S) = NS // V count=1 inflight=0 NS = unix_peer(S) skb2 = sock_alloc() skb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V]) // V became in-flight // V count=2 inflight=1 close(V) // V count=1 inflight=1 // GC candidate condition met for u in gc_inflight_list: if (total_refs == inflight_refs) add u to gc_candidates // gc_candidates={L, V} for u in gc_candidates: scan_children(u, dec_inflight) // embryo (skb1) was not // reachable from L yet, so V's // inflight remains unchanged __skb_queue_tail(L, skb1) unix_state_unlock(L) for u in gc_candidates: if (u.inflight) scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail) // V count=1 inflight=2 (!) If there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This makes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After flipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if there is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At this point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already taken. Inflight graph remains unaffected.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() Garbage collector does not take into account the risk of embryo getting enqueued during the garbage collection. If such embryo has a peer that carries SCM_RIGHTS, two consecutive passes of scan_children() may see a different set of children. Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight count, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list. sockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM S is an unconnected socket L is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable V's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped connect(S, addr) sendmsg(S, [V]); close(V) __unix_gc() ---------------- ------------------------- ----------- NS = unix_create1() skb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS) L = unix_find_other(addr) unix_state_lock(L) unix_peer(S) = NS // V count=1 inflight=0 NS = unix_peer(S) skb2 = sock_alloc() skb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V]) // V became in-flight // V count=2 inflight=1 close(V) // V count=1 inflight=1 // GC candidate condition met for u in gc_inflight_list: if (total_refs == inflight_refs) add u to gc_candidates // gc_candidates={L, V} for u in gc_candidates: scan_children(u, dec_inflight) // embryo (skb1) was not // reachable from L yet, so V's // inflight remains unchanged __skb_queue_tail(L, skb1) unix_state_unlock(L) for u in gc_candidates: if (u.inflight) scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail) // V count=1 inflight=2 (!) If there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This makes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After flipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if there is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At this point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already taken. Inflight graph remains unaffected.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/47d8ac011fe1c9251070e1bd64cb10b48193ec51
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d8ac011fe1c9251070e1bd64cb10b48193ec51
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/507cc232ffe53a352847893f8177d276c3b532a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75722be422c276b699200de90527d01c602ea7c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbdf7bec5c920200077d693193f989cb1513f009
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e76c2678228f6aec74b305ae30c9374cc2f28a51
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26923
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6893-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6893-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6893-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6896-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6896-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6896-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6896-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6896-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6898-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6898-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6898-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6898-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6900-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6917-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6918-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6919-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6926-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6926-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6926-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6927-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6938-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7019-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26923