Description

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

net/ipv6: avoid possible UAF in ip6_route_mpath_notify()

syzbot found another use-after-free in ip6_route_mpath_notify() [1]

Commit f7225172f25a ("net/ipv6: prevent use after free in
ip6_route_mpath_notify") was not able to fix the root cause.

We need to defer the fib6_info_release() calls after
ip6_route_mpath_notify(), in the cleanup phase.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_fill_node+0x1460/0x1ac0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88809a07fc64 by task syz-executor.2/23037

CPU: 0 PID: 23037 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-01035-gea7f3cfaa588 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2e0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0x167/0x540 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0x142/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
rt6_fill_node+0x1460/0x1ac0
inet6_rt_notify+0x13b/0x290 net/ipv6/route.c:6184
ip6_route_mpath_notify net/ipv6/route.c:5198 [inline]
ip6_route_multipath_add net/ipv6/route.c:5404 [inline]
inet6_rtm_newroute+0x1d0f/0x2300 net/ipv6/route.c:5517
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x885/0x1040 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6597
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e3/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1341 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7ea/0x980 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1367...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26852

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 15.26% (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/31ea5bcc7d4cd1423de6be327a2c034725704136
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/664f9c647260cc9d68b4e31d9899530d89dd045e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ce2e54cc0ae366f45516c00bf1b19aa43e9abe
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cae3303257950d03ffec2df4a45e836f10d26c24
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/394334fe2ae3b9f1e2332b873857e84cb28aac18
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed883060c38721ed828061f6c0c30e5147326c9a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b34f73cdbdb8eaf9ea12e9e2eb3b29716c4dda
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685f7d531264599b3f167f1e94bbd22f120e5fab

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