5.5

CVE-2024-53140

netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close

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

netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close

Netlink supports iterative dumping of data. It provides the families
the following ops:
 - start - (optional) kicks off the dumping process
 - dump  - actual dump helper, keeps getting called until it returns 0
 - done  - (optional) pairs with .start, can be used for cleanup
The whole process is asynchronous and the repeated calls to .dump
don't actually happen in a tight loop, but rather are triggered
in response to recvmsg() on the socket.

This gives the user full control over the dump, but also means that
the user can close the socket without getting to the end of the dump.
To make sure .start is always paired with .done we check if there
is an ongoing dump before freeing the socket, and if so call .done.

The complication is that sockets can get freed from BH and .done
is allowed to sleep. So we use a workqueue to defer the call, when
needed.

Unfortunately this does not work correctly. What we defer is not
the cleanup but rather releasing a reference on the socket.
We have no guarantee that we own the last reference, if someone
else holds the socket they may release it in BH and we're back
to square one.

The whole dance, however, appears to be unnecessary. Only the user
can interact with dumps, so we can clean up when socket is closed.
And close always happens in process context. Some async code may
still access the socket after close, queue notification skbs to it etc.
but no dumps can start, end or otherwise make progress.

Delete the workqueue and flush the dump state directly from the release
handler. Note that further cleanup is possible in -next, for instance
we now always call .done before releasing the main module reference,
so dump doesn't have to take a reference of its own.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.4.38 < 4.5
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.8.14 < 4.9
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.9 < 6.1.119
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.63
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.11.10
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.24% 0.143
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
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/114a61d8d94ae3a43b82446cf737fd757021b834
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/176c41b3ca9281a9736b67c6121b03dbf0c8c08f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1904fb9ebf911441f90a68e96b22aa73e4410505
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e87a52133284afbd40fb522dbf96e258af52a98
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/598c956b62699c3753929602560d8df322e60559
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3f2c512d2b7dbd247485b1dd9e43e4210a18f4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc769d2fa1b8b368c5fbe013b5b096afa3c05ca
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2fab3d66cc16cfb9e3ea1772abe6b79b71fa603
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html