CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-26831
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1
Recently, handshake_req_destroy_test1 started failing:
Expected handshake_req_destroy_test == req, but
handshake_req_destroy_test == 0000000000000000
req == 0000000060f99b40
not ok 11 req_destroy works
This is because "sock_release(sock)" was replaced with "fput(filp)"
to address a memory leak. Note that sock_release() is synchronous
but fput() usually delays the final close and clean-up.
The delay is not consequential in the other cases that were changed
but handshake_req_destroy_test1 is testing that handshake_req_cancel()
followed by closing the file actually does call the ->hp_destroy
method. Thus the PTR_EQ test at the end has to be sure that the
final close is complete before it checks the pointer.
We cannot use a completion here because if ->hp_destroy is never
called (ie, there is an API bug) then the test will hang.
Reported by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6 < 6.6.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.5.6
• linux linux kernel 6.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1d71cabb19ec2586827adfc60d68689c68c194 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f97805b8df6e33850e225e6bd3ebd9e246920af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d74226e03df1bf19848f18344401f254345af912 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1d71cabb19ec2586827adfc60d68689c68c194 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f97805b8df6e33850e225e6bd3ebd9e246920af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d74226e03df1bf19848f18344401f254345af912 Patch