Description

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

tcp: Fix refcnt handling in __inet_hash_connect().

syzbot reported a warning in sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu().

The commit 66b60b0c8c4a ("dccp/tcp: Unhash sk from ehash for tb2 alloc
failure after check_estalblished().") tried to fix an issue that an
unconnected socket occupies an ehash entry when bhash2 allocation fails.

In such a case, we need to revert changes done by check_established(),
which does not hold refcnt when inserting socket into ehash.

So, to revert the change, we need to __sk_nulls_add_node_rcu() instead
of sk_nulls_add_node_rcu().

Otherwise, sock_put() will cause refcnt underflow and leak the socket.

[0]:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 23948 at include/net/sock.h:799 sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu+0x166/0x1a0 include/net/sock.h:799
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 23948 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6-syzkaller-00159-gc055fc00c07b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024
RIP: 0010:sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu+0x166/0x1a0 include/net/sock.h:799
Code: e8 7f 71 c6 f7 83 fb 02 7c 25 e8 35 6d c6 f7 4d 85 f6 0f 95 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 1b 6d c6 f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb b2 e8 10 6d c6 f7 4c 89 e7 be 04 00 00 00 e8 63 e7 d2
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032d7848 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff89cd0035 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000040000
RDX: ffffc90004de1000 RSI: 000000000003ffff RDI: 0000000000040000
RBP: 1ffff1100439ac26 R08: ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26864

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/86d9b040421bbd26425f5a3edc226f57ecdecbfe
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/856baaa100cd288d3685eedae9a129c996e7e755
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b20e61d36f490319d3fbdedd410155232ab5190
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad105cde6b261b8b05ec872fe7d1987417d7fe5a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04d9d1fc428ac9f581d55118d67e0cb546701feb

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