Linux Kernel up to 6.6.58/6.11.5 taprio_dump use after free

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.58/6.11.5. Affected is the function taprio_dump. The manipulation leads to use after free. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-50126. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.58/6.11.5. This issue affects the function taprio_dump. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: use RCU read-side critical section in taprio_dump() Fix possible use-after-free in 'taprio_dump()' by adding RCU read-side critical section there. Never seen on x86 but found on a KASAN-enabled arm64 system when investigating https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b65e0af58423fc8a73aa: [T15862] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in taprio_dump+0xa0c/0xbb0 [T15862] Read of size 4 at addr ffff0000d4bb88f8 by task repro/15862 [T15862] [T15862] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15862 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1-00293-gdefaf1a2113a-dirty #2 [T15862] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-5.fc40 05/24/2024 [T15862] Call trace: [T15862] dump_backtrace+0x20c/0x220 [T15862] show_stack+0x2c/0x40 [T15862] dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x174 [T15862] print_report+0x170/0x4d8 [T15862] kasan_report+0xb8/0x1d4 [T15862] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x2c [T15862] taprio_dump+0xa0c/0xbb0 [T15862] tc_fill_qdisc+0x540/0x1020 [T15862] qdisc_notify.isra.0+0x330/0x3a0 [T15862] tc_modify_qdisc+0x7b8/0x1838 [T15862] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c8/0xc20 [T15862] netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f8/0x3d4 [T15862] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x40 [T15862] netlink_unicast+0x51c/0x790 [T15862] netlink_sendmsg+0x79c/0xc20 [T15862] __sock_sendmsg+0xe0/0x1a0 [T15862] ____sys_sendmsg+0x6c0/0x840 [T15862] ___sys_sendmsg+0x1ac/0x1f0 [T15862] __sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1d0 [T15862] __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x74/0xb0 [T15862] invoke_syscall+0x88/0x2e0 [T15862] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xe4/0x2a0 [T15862] do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60 [T15862] el0_svc+0x50/0x184 [T15862] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c [T15862] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [T15862] [T15862] Allocated by task 15857: [T15862] kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70 [T15862] kasan_save_track+0x20/0x3c [T15862] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x60 [T15862] __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0xe0 [T15862] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x194/0x334 [T15862] taprio_change+0x45c/0x2fe0 [T15862] tc_modify_qdisc+0x6a8/0x1838 [T15862] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c8/0xc20 [T15862] netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f8/0x3d4 [T15862] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x40 [T15862] netlink_unicast+0x51c/0x790 [T15862] netlink_sendmsg+0x79c/0xc20 [T15862] __sock_sendmsg+0xe0/0x1a0 [T15862] ____sys_sendmsg+0x6c0/0x840 [T15862] ___sys_sendmsg+0x1ac/0x1f0 [T15862] __sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1d0 [T15862] __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x74/0xb0 [T15862] invoke_syscall+0x88/0x2e0 [T15862] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xe4/0x2a0 [T15862] do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60 [T15862] el0_svc+0x50/0x184 [T15862] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c [T15862] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [T15862] [T15862] Freed by task 6192: [T15862] kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70 [T15862] kasan_save_track+0x20/0x3c [T15862] kasan_save_free_info+0x4c/0x80 [T15862] poison_slab_object+0x110/0x160 [T15862] __kasan_slab_free+0x3c/0x74 [T15862] kfree+0x134/0x3c0 [T15862] taprio_free_sched_cb+0x18c/0x220 [T15862] rcu_core+0x920/0x1b7c [T15862] rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c [T15862] handle_softirqs+0x2e8/0xd64 [T15862] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-50126 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211777 (Debian dsa-5818 : affs-modules-6.1.0-21-4kc-malta-di - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.6.59 or 6.11.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 5d282467245f/e4369cb6acf6/b22db8b8befe is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (211777) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3339). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source eCryptfs
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.6.51
• 6.6.52
• 6.6.53
• 6.6.54
• 6.6.55
• 6.6.56
• 6.6.57
• 6.6.58
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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