CVE-2024-26837: net: bridge: switchdev: Skip MDB replays of deferred events on offload
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: switchdev: Skip MDB replays of deferred events on offload
Before this change, generation of the list of MDB events to replay
would race against the creation of new group memberships, either from
the IGMP/MLD snooping logic or from user configuration.
While new memberships are immediately visible to walkers of
br->mdb_list, the notification of their existence to switchdev event
subscribers is deferred until a later point in time. So if a replay
list was generated during a time that overlapped with such a window,
it would also contain a replay of the not-yet-delivered event.
The driver would thus receive two copies of what the bridge internally
considered to be one single event. On destruction of the bridge, only
a single membership deletion event was therefore sent. As a
consequence of this, drivers which reference count memberships (at
least DSA), would be left with orphan groups in their hardware
database when the bridge was destroyed.
This is only an issue when replaying additions. While deletion events
may still be pending on the deferred queue, they will already have
been removed from br->mdb_list, so no duplicates can be generated in
that scenario.
To a user this meant that old group memberships, from a bridge in
which a port was previously attached, could be reanimated (in
hardware) when the port joined a new bridge, without the new bridge's
knowledge.
For example, on an mv88e6xxx...
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-26837
Affected Products
Vendor: Linux
Product: Linux
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (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/2d5b4b3376fa146a23917b8577064906d643925fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/603be95437e7fd85ba694e75918067fb9e7754db
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b4c5b1d760008f1dd18c07c35af0442e54f9c8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc489f86257cab5056e747344f17a164f63bff4b