Description

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

net/mlx5: DPLL, Fix possible use after free after delayed work timer triggers

I managed to hit following use after free warning recently:

[ 2169.711665] ==================================================================
[ 2169.714009] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timers.part.0+0x179/0x4c0
[ 2169.716293] Write of size 8 at addr ffff88812b326a70 by task swapper/4/0

[ 2169.719022] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2jiri+ #2
[ 2169.720974] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 2169.722457] Call Trace:
[ 2169.722756]
[ 2169.723024] dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0xb0
[ 2169.723417] print_report+0xc5/0x630
[ 2169.723807] ? __virt_addr_valid+0x126/0x2b0
[ 2169.724268] kasan_report+0xbe/0xf0
[ 2169.724667] ? __run_timers.part.0+0x179/0x4c0
[ 2169.725116] ? __run_timers.part.0+0x179/0x4c0
[ 2169.725570] __run_timers.part.0+0x179/0x4c0
[ 2169.726003] ? call_timer_fn+0x320/0x320
[ 2169.726404] ? lock_downgrade+0x3a0/0x3a0
[ 2169.726820] ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x20
[ 2169.727257] ? ktime_get+0x92/0x150
[ 2169.727630] ? lapic_next_deadline+0x35/0x60
[ 2169.728069] run_timer_softirq+0x40/0x80
[ 2169.728475] __do_softirq+0x1a1/0x509
[ 2169.728866] irq_exit_rcu+0x95/0xc0
[ 2169.729241] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80
[ 2169.729718]
[ 2169.729993]
[ 2169.730259] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26724

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.48% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1596126ea50228f0ed96697bae4e9368fda02c56
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1eec2f546f2afa8c98ec41e5d8ee488165d685

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