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CVE-2024-26923

af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()



AssignerLinux
Reserved2024-02-19
Published2024-04-24
Updated2024-08-02

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() Garbage collector does not take into account the risk of embryo getting enqueued during the garbage collection. If such embryo has a peer that carries SCM_RIGHTS, two consecutive passes of scan_children() may see a different set of children. Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight count, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list. sockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM S is an unconnected socket L is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable V's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped connect(S, addr) sendmsg(S, [V]); close(V) __unix_gc() ---------------- ------------------------- ----------- NS = unix_create1() skb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS) L = unix_find_other(addr) unix_state_lock(L) unix_peer(S) = NS // V count=1 inflight=0 NS = unix_peer(S) skb2 = sock_alloc() skb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V]) // V became in-flight // V count=2 inflight=1 close(V) // V count=1 inflight=1 // GC candidate condition met for u in gc_inflight_list: if (total_refs == inflight_refs) add u to gc_candidates // gc_candidates={L, V} for u in gc_candidates: scan_children(u, dec_inflight) // embryo (skb1) was not // reachable from L yet, so V's // inflight remains unchanged __skb_queue_tail(L, skb1) unix_state_unlock(L) for u in gc_candidates: if (u.inflight) scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail) // V count=1 inflight=2 (!) If there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This makes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After flipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if there is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At this point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already taken. Inflight graph remains unaffected.

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before a36ae0ec2353
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before 343c5372d5e1
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before 2e2a03787f4f
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before e76c2678228f
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before b75722be422c
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before 507cc232ffe5
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before dbdf7bec5c92
affected

1fd05ba5a2f2 before 47d8ac011fe1
affected

Default status
affected

2.6.23
affected

Any version before 2.6.23
unaffected

4.19.314
unaffected

5.4.275
unaffected

5.10.216
unaffected

5.15.156
unaffected

6.1.87
unaffected

6.6.28
unaffected

6.8.7
unaffected

6.9
unaffected

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36ae0ec2353015f0f6762e59f4c2dbc0c906423

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/343c5372d5e17b306db5f8f3c895539b06e3177f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e2a03787f4f0abc0072350654ab0ef3324d9db3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e76c2678228f6aec74b305ae30c9374cc2f28a51

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75722be422c276b699200de90527d01c602ea7c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/507cc232ffe53a352847893f8177d276c3b532a9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbdf7bec5c920200077d693193f989cb1513f009

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d8ac011fe1c9251070e1bd64cb10b48193ec51

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html

cve.org CVE-2024-26923

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2024-26923

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