CVE-2024-50126 net: sched: use RCU read-side critical section in taprio_dump()

What is CVE-2024-50126?

CVE-2024-50126 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50126?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50126?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2024-50126 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50126 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-52514, BELL-CVE-2024-50126, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50126, GHSA-qh6f-g265-fmxf, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50126.