7.8

CVE-2025-21858

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

geneve: Fix use-after-free in geneve_find_dev().

syzkaller reported a use-after-free in geneve_find_dev() [0]
without repro.

geneve_configure() links struct geneve_dev.next to
net_generic(net, geneve_net_id)->geneve_list.

The net here could differ from dev_net(dev) if IFLA_NET_NS_PID,
IFLA_NET_NS_FD, or IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID is set.

When dev_net(dev) is dismantled, geneve_exit_batch_rtnl() finally
calls unregister_netdevice_queue() for each dev in the netns,
and later the dev is freed.

However, its geneve_dev.next is still linked to the backend UDP
socket netns.

Then, use-after-free will occur when another geneve dev is created
in the netns.

Let's call geneve_dellink() instead in geneve_destroy_tunnels().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in geneve_find_dev drivers/net/geneve.c:1295 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in geneve_configure+0x234/0x858 drivers/net/geneve.c:1343
Read of size 2 at addr ffff000054d6ee24 by task syz.1.4029/13441

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13441 Comm: syz.1.4029 Not tainted 6.13.0-g0ad9617c78ac #24 dc35ca22c79fb82e8e7bc5c9c9adafea898b1e3d
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x38/0x50 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:466 (C)
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xbc/0x108 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x16c/0x6f0 mm/kasan/report.c:489
 kasan_report+0xc0/0x120 mm/kasan/report.c:602
 __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:379
 geneve_find_dev drivers/net/geneve.c:1295 [inline]
 geneve_configure+0x234/0x858 drivers/net/geneve.c:1343
 geneve_newlink+0xb8/0x128 drivers/net/geneve.c:1634
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x23c/0x868 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3795
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1054/0x1630 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4021
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x61c/0x918 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6911
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6938
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x618/0x838 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x5fc/0x8b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1892
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:713 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x410/0x6f8 net/socket.c:2568
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x1d8 net/socket.c:2622
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2654 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2659 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2657 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x12c/0x1c8 net/socket.c:2657
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x90/0x278 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x250 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x54/0x70 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x4c/0xa8 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x78/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

Allocated by task 13247:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x30/0x68 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x44/0x58 mm/kasan/generic.c:568
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x84/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4298 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x2a0/0x560 mm/slub.c:4304
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x9c/0x230 mm/util.c:645
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xb8/0x11a0 net/core/dev.c:11470
 rtnl_create_link+0x2b8/0xb50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3604
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x19c/0x868 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3780
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1054/0x1630 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4021
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x61c/0x918 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6911
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6938
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_n
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.2 < 6.1.130
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.80
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.17
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.13.5
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.125
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.