CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-27012
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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:
netfilter: nf_tables: restore set elements when delete set fails
From abort path, nft_mapelem_activate() needs to restore refcounters to
the original state. Currently, it uses the set->ops->walk() to iterate
over these set elements. The existing set iterator skips inactive
elements in the next generation, this does not work from the abort path
to restore the original state since it has to skip active elements
instead (not inactive ones).
This patch moves the check for inactive elements to the set iterator
callback, then it reverses the logic for the .activate case which
needs to skip active elements.
Toggle next generation bit for elements when delete set command is
invoked and call nft_clear() from .activate (abort) path to restore the
next generation bit.
The splat below shows an object in mappings memleak:
[43929.457523] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[43929.457532] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1139 at include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1237 nft_setelem_data_deactivate+0xe4/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[...]
[43929.458014] RIP: 0010:nft_setelem_data_deactivate+0xe4/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[43929.458076] Code: 83 f8 01 77 ab 49 8d 7c 24 08 e8 37 5e d0 de 49 8b 6c 24 08 48 8d 7d 50 e8 e9 5c d0 de 8b 45 50 8d 50 ff 89 55 50 85 c0 75 86 <0f> 0b eb 82 0f 0b eb b3 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
[43929.458081] RSP: 0018:ffff888140f9f4b0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[43929.458086] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881434f5288 RCX: dffffc0000000000
[43929.458090] RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffffffffa26d28a7 RDI: ffff88810ecc9550
[43929.458093] RBP: ffff88810ecc9500 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10281f3e8f
[43929.458096] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff0000ffff0000 R12: ffff8881434f52a0
[43929.458100] R13: ffff888140f9f5f4 R14: ffff888151c7a800 R15: 0000000000000002
[43929.458103] FS: 00007f0c687c4740(0000) GS:ffff888390800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[43929.458107] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[43929.458111] CR2: 00007f58dbe5b008 CR3: 0000000123602005 CR4: 00000000001706f0
[43929.458114] Call Trace:
[43929.458118] <TASK>
[43929.458121] ? __warn+0x9f/0x1a0
[43929.458127] ? nft_setelem_data_deactivate+0xe4/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[43929.458188] ? report_bug+0x1b1/0x1e0
[43929.458196] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[43929.458200] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40
[43929.458211] ? nft_setelem_data_deactivate+0xd7/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[43929.458271] ? nft_setelem_data_deactivate+0xe4/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[43929.458332] nft_mapelem_deactivate+0x24/0x30 [nf_tables]
[43929.458392] nft_rhash_walk+0xdd/0x180 [nf_tables]
[43929.458453] ? __pfx_nft_rhash_walk+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[43929.458512] ? rb_insert_color+0x2e/0x280
[43929.458520] nft_map_deactivate+0xdc/0x1e0 [nf_tables]
[43929.458582] ? __pfx_nft_map_deactivate+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[43929.458642] ? __pfx_nft_mapelem_deactivate+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[43929.458701] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x46/0x70
[43929.458709] nft_delset+0xff/0x110 [nf_tables]
[43929.458769] nft_flush_table+0x16f/0x460 [nf_tables]
[43929.458830] nf_tables_deltable+0x501/0x580 [nf_tables]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.8.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.9
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• fedoraproject fedora 39
• fedoraproject fedora 40
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cf64b16ac55c42c8989d8c819e42a77549cd680 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86658fc7414d4b9e25c2699d751034537503d637 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e79b47a8615d42c68aaeb68971593333667382ed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faa0deee272128b95a838fe7c6ebf6a2a426df14 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86658fc7414d4b9e25c2699d751034537503d637 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e79b47a8615d42c68aaeb68971593333667382ed Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4EZ6PJW7VOZ224TD7N4JZNU6KV32ZJ53/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DAMSOZXJEPUOXW33WZYWCVAY7Z5S7OOY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GCBZZEC7L7KTWWAS2NLJK6SO3IZIL4WW/ lists.fedoraproject.org