CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40983
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption
As it says in commit 3bc07321ccc2 ("xfrm: Force a dst refcount before
entering the xfrm type handlers"):
"Crypto requests might return asynchronous. In this case we leave the
rcu protected region, so force a refcount on the skb's destination
entry before we enter the xfrm type input/output handlers."
On TIPC decryption path it has the same problem, and skb_dst_force()
should be called before doing decryption to avoid a possible crash.
Shuang reported this issue when this warning is triggered:
[] WARNING: include/net/dst.h:337 tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]
[] Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- - - 4.18.0-496.el8.x86_64+debug
[] Workqueue: crypto cryptd_queue_worker
[] RIP: 0010:tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]
[] Call Trace:
[] tipc_sk_mcast_rcv+0x548/0xea0 [tipc]
[] tipc_rcv+0xcf5/0x1060 [tipc]
[] tipc_aead_decrypt_done+0x215/0x2e0 [tipc]
[] cryptd_aead_crypt+0xdb/0x190
[] cryptd_queue_worker+0xed/0x190
[] process_one_work+0x93d/0x17e0
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.221)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.162)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.10
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ebe8f840c7450ecbfca9d18ac92e9ce9155e269 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb1b39627892c4e26cb0162b75725aa5fcc60c8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/623c90d86a61e3780f682b32928af469c66ec4c2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6808b41371670c51feea14f63ade211e78100930 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/692803b39a36e63ac73208e0a3769ae6a2f9bc76 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b57a4a2dc8746cea58a922ebe31b6aa629d69d93 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ebe8f840c7450ecbfca9d18ac92e9ce9155e269 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb1b39627892c4e26cb0162b75725aa5fcc60c8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/623c90d86a61e3780f682b32928af469c66ec4c2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6808b41371670c51feea14f63ade211e78100930 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/692803b39a36e63ac73208e0a3769ae6a2f9bc76 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b57a4a2dc8746cea58a922ebe31b6aa629d69d93 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org