UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42108
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll() The use-after-free is actually in rswitch_tx_free(), which is inlined in rswitch_poll(). Since `skb` and `gq->skbs[gq->dirty]` are in fact the same pointer, the skb is first freed using dev_kfree_skb_any(), then the value in skb->len is used to update the interface statistics. Let's move around the instructions to use skb->len before the skb is freed. This bug is trivial to reproduce using KFENCE. It will trigger a splat every few packets. A simple ARP request or ICMP echo request is enough.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll() The use-after-free is actually in rswitch_tx_free(), which is inlined in rswitch_poll(). Since `skb` and `gq->skbs[gq->dirty]` are in fact the same pointer, the skb is first freed using dev_kfree_skb_any(), then the value in skb->len is used to update the interface statistics. Let's move around the instructions to use skb->len before the skb is freed. This bug is trivial to reproduce using KFENCE. It will trigger a splat every few packets. A simple ARP request or ICMP echo request is enough.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/9a0c28efeec6383ef22e97437616b920e7320b67
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92cbbe7759193e3418f38d0d73f8fe125312c58b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a0c28efeec6383ef22e97437616b920e7320b67
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42108
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-6
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7089-7
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7090-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7095-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7156-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42108