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High severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 24, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net: tun: Fix use-after-free in tun_detach()

syzbot reported use-after-free in tun_detach() [1]. This causes call
trace like below:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in notifier_call_chain+0x1ee/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:75
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807324e2a8 by task syz-executor.0/3673

CPU: 0 PID: 3673 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5-syzkaller-00044-gcc675d22e422 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xd1/0x138 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
print_report+0x15e/0x461 mm/kasan/report.c:395
kasan_report+0xbf/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
notifier_call_chain+0x1ee/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:75
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x86/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1942
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]
netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10237 [inline]
netdev_run_todo+0xbc6/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10351
tun_detach drivers/net/tun.c:704 [inline]
tun_chr_close+0xe4/0x190 drivers/net/tun.c:3467
__fput+0x27c/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:320
task_work_run+0x16f/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:179
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]
do_exit+0xb3d/0x2a30 kernel/exit.c:820
do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950
get_signal+0x21b1/0x2440 kernel/signal.c:2858
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x86/0x2300 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:869
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296
do_syscall_64+0x46/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The cause of the issue is that sock_put() from __tun_detach() drops
last reference count for struct net, and then notifier_call_chain()
from netdev_state_change() accesses that struct net.

This patch fixes the issue by calling sock_put() from tun_detach()
after all necessary accesses for the struct net has done.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Oct 24, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49014

GHSA ID

GHSA-rm44-23mc-xq5w

Source code

No known source code

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