Vulnerability · Published Apr 4, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-26750af_unix: Drop oob_skb ref before purging queue in GC.

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Drop oob_skb ref before purging queue in GC. syzbot reported another task hung in __unix_gc(). [0] The current while loop assumes that all of the left candidates have oob_skb and calling kfree_skb(oob_skb) releases the remaining candidates. However, I missed a case that oob_skb has self-referencing fd and another fd and the latter sk is placed before the former in the candidate list. Then, the while loop never proceeds, resulting the task hung. __unix_gc() has the same loop just before purging the collected skb, so we can call kfree_skb(oob_skb) there and let __skb_queue_purge() release all inflight sockets. [0]: Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1: NMI backtrace for cpu 1 CPU: 1 PID: 2784 Comm: kworker/u4:8 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-01028-g71b605d32017 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024 Workqueue: events_unbound __unix_gc RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x0/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:200 Code: 89 fb e8 23 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 84 f5 1a 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 43 26 57 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 48 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 90 52 70 7e 65 8b 15 91 52 70 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000a17fa78 EFLAGS: 00000287 RAX: ffffffff8a0a6108 RBX: ffff88802b6c2640 RCX: ffff88802c0b3b80 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc9000a17fbf0 R08: ffffffff89383f1d R09: 1ffff1100ee5ff84 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100ee5ff85 R12: 1ffff110056d84ee R13: ffffc9000a17fae0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8f47b840 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007ffef5687ff8 CR3: 0000000029b34000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <NMI> </NMI> <TASK> __unix_gc+0xe69/0xf40 net/unix/garbage.c:343 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2633 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x913/0x1420 kernel/workqueue.c:2706 worker_thread+0xa5f/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2787 kthread+0x2ef/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242 </TASK>

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.82-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26750
Debian:13linux6.7.9-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26750
Debian:14linux6.7.9-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-112.122UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-112.122USN-6820-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1063.69UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1063.69USN-6821-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1066.75USN-6821-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1066.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1065.74.1USN-6821-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1067.76.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1062.70UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1062.70USN-6820-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1060.66UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1060.66USN-6821-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1046.53UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1046.53USN-6821-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1056.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1056.59USN-6821-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1058.64USN-6821-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1058.64UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1060.65USN-6821-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1060.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-110.120UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-110.120USN-6820-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1058.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1058.59USN-6820-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1061.67USN-6821-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1061.67UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1058.61UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26750
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34USN-6820-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 36f7371de977f805750748e80279be7e370df85c – before 6c480d0f131862645d172ca9e25dc152b1a5c3a62a3d40b4025fcfe51b04924979f1653993b17669 – before c4c795b21dd23d9514ae1c6646c3fb2c78b5be6069e0f04460f4037e01e29f0d9675544f62aafca3 – before e9eac260369d0cf57ea53df95427125725507a0dcb8890318dde26fc89c6ea67d6e9070ab50b6e91 – before 43ba9e331559a30000c862eea313248707afa78725236c91b5ab4a26a56ba2e79b8060cf4e047839 – before aa82ac51d63328714645c827775d64dbfd9941f3
Linux Linux 5.15.149 – before 5.15.151

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