5.5

CVE-2024-26740

net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress

The test Davide added in commit ca22da2fbd69 ("act_mirred: use the backlog
for nested calls to mirred ingress") hangs our testing VMs every 10 or so
runs, with the familiar tcp_v4_rcv -> tcp_v4_rcv deadlock reported by
lockdep.

The problem as previously described by Davide (see Link) is that
if we reverse flow of traffic with the redirect (egress -> ingress)
we may reach the same socket which generated the packet. And we may
still be holding its socket lock. The common solution to such deadlocks
is to put the packet in the Rx backlog, rather than run the Rx path
inline. Do that for all egress -> ingress reversals, not just once
we started to nest mirred calls.

In the past there was a concern that the backlog indirection will
lead to loss of error reporting / less accurate stats. But the current
workaround does not seem to address the issue.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.10 < 6.6.19
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.7.7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.8 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.8 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.8 Updaterc3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.18% 0.078
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f671db18823089a02f07efc04efdb2272ddc17
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ddea1600bc476e0f5e02bce0e29a460ccbf0be
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c787888d164689da8b1b115f3ef562c1e843af4
Patch