CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53186
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- 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])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix use-after-free in SMB request handling
A race condition exists between SMB request handling in
`ksmbd_conn_handler_loop()` and the freeing of `ksmbd_conn` in the
workqueue handler `handle_ksmbd_work()`. This leads to a UAF.
- KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_ksmbd_work
- KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rtlock_slowlock_locked
This race condition arises as follows:
- `ksmbd_conn_handler_loop()` waits for `conn->r_count` to reach zero:
`wait_event(conn->r_count_q, atomic_read(&conn->r_count) == 0);`
- Meanwhile, `handle_ksmbd_work()` decrements `conn->r_count` using
`atomic_dec_return(&conn->r_count)`, and if it reaches zero, calls
`ksmbd_conn_free()`, which frees `conn`.
- However, after `handle_ksmbd_work()` decrements `conn->r_count`,
it may still access `conn->r_count_q` in the following line:
`waitqueue_active(&conn->r_count_q)` or `wake_up(&conn->r_count_q)`
This results in a UAF, as `conn` has already been freed.
The discovery of this UAF can be referenced in the following PR for
syzkaller's support for SMB requests.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.55 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.10.14 < 6.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11.3 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96261adb998a3b513468b6ce17dbec76be5507d4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a8c5d89d327ff58e9b2517f8a6afb4181d32c6e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a96f9eb7add30ba0fafcfe7b7aca090978196800 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f20b77f7897e6aab9ce5527e6016ad2be5d70a33 Patch