CVE-2024-56635 (published 2024-12-27)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: avoid potential UAF in default_operstate()

syzbot reported an UAF in default_operstate() [1]

Issue is a race between device and netns dismantles.

After calling __rtnl_unlock() from netdev_run_todo(),
we can not assume the netns of each device is still alive.

Make sure the device is not in NETREG_UNREGISTERED state,
and add an ASSERT_RTNL() before the call to
__dev_get_by_index().

We might move this ASSERT_RTNL() in __dev_get_by_index()
in the future.

[1]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __dev_get_by_index+0x5d/0x110 net/core/dev.c:852
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888043eba1b0 by task syz.0.0/5339

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5339 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-10296-gaaf20f870da0 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
  print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
  kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
  __dev_get_by_index+0x5d/0x110 net/core/dev.c:852
  default_operstate net/core/link_watch.c:51 [inline]
  rfc2863_policy+0x224/0x300 net/core/link_watch.c:67
  linkwatch_do_dev+0x3e/0x170 net/core/link_watch.c:170
  netdev_run_todo+0x461/0x1000 net/core/dev.c:10894
  rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:152 [inline]
  rtnl_net_unlock include/linux/rtnetlink.h:133 [inline]
  rtnl_dellink+0x760/0x8d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3520
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x791/0xcf0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6911
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e3/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2541
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0x7f6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347
  netlink_sendmsg+0x8e4/0xcb0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [inline]
  __sock_sendmsg+0x221/0x270 net/socket.c:726
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x52a/0x7e0 net/socket.c:2583
  ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2637 [inline]
  __sys_sendmsg+0x269/0x350 net/socket.c:2669
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2a3cb80809
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f2a3d9cd058 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2a3cd45fa0 RCX: 00007f2a3cb80809
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f2a3cbf393e R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f2a3cd45fa0 R15: 00007ffd03bc65c8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5339:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
  poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x98/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x243/0x390 mm/slub.c:4314
  kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]
  kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:945 [inline]
  netdev_create_hash net/core/dev.c:11870 [inline]
  netdev_init+0x10c/0x250 net/core/dev.c:11890
  ops_init+0x31e/0x590 net/core/net_namespace.c:138
  setup_net+0x287/0x9e0 net/core/net_namespace.c:362
  copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570 net/core/net_namespace.c:500
  create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
  unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180 kernel/nsproxy.c:228
  ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70 kernel/fork.c:3314
  __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3385 [inline]
  __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3383 [inline]
  __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3383
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x8
---truncated---
Severity: HIGH (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-362
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel