CVE: CVE-2024-36904
Published: 2024-05-30
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: Use refcount_inc_not_zero() in tcp_twsk_unique().

Anderson Nascimento reported a use-after-free splat in tcp_twsk_unique()
with nice analysis.

Since commit ec94c2696f0b ("tcp/dccp: avoid one atomic operation for
timewait hashdance"), inet_twsk_hashdance() sets TIME-WAIT socket's
sk_refcnt after putting it into ehash and releasing the bucket lock.

Thus, there is a small race window where other threads could try to
reuse the port during connect() and call sock_hold() in tcp_twsk_unique()
for the TIME-WAIT socket with zero refcnt.

If that happens, the refcnt taken by tcp_twsk_unique() is overwritten
and sock_put() will cause underflow, triggering a real use-after-free
somewhere else.

To avoid the use-after-free, we need to use refcount_inc_not_zero() in
tcp_twsk_unique() and give up on reusing the port if it returns false.

[0]:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1039313 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
CPU: 0 PID: 1039313 Comm: trigger Not tainted 6.8.6-200.fc39.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware20,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS VMW201.00V.21805430.B64[PII_REDACTED] 05/22/2023
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
Code: 42 8e ff 0f 0b c3 cc cc cc cc 80 3d aa 13 ea 01 00 0f 85 5e ff ff ff 48 c7 c7 f8 8e b7 82 c6 05 96 13 ea 01 01 e8 7b 42 8e ff <0f> 0b c3 cc cc cc cc 48 c7 c7 50 8f b7 82 c6 05 7a 13 ea 01 01 e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006b43b60 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffff888009bb3ef0 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
RDX: ffff88807be218c8 RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffff88807be218c0
RBP:[PII_REDACTED]069d70 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffffc90006b439f0
R10: ffffc90006b439e8 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff8880029ede84
R13:[PII_REDACTED]004e20 R14: ffffffff84356dc0 R15: ffff888009bb3ef0
FS:  00007f62c10926c0(0000) GS:ffff88807be00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2:[PII_REDACTED]ccb000 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]28c005 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]f70ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
 ? __warn+0x81/0x130
 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
 ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0
 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xe5/0x110
 tcp_twsk_unique+0x186/0x190
 __inet_check_established+0x176/0x2d0
 __inet_hash_connect+0x74/0x7d0
 ? __pfx___inet_check_established+0x10/0x10
 tcp_v4_connect+0x278/0x530
 __inet_stream_connect+0x10f/0x3d0
 inet_stream_connect+0x3a/0x60
 __sys_connect+0xa8/0xd0
 __x64_sys_connect+0x18/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x83/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0x80
RIP: 0033:0x7f62c11a885d
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 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 8b 0d a3 45 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f62c1091e58 EFLAGS: 00000296 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:[PII_REDACTED]ccb004 RCX: 00007f62c11a885d
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI:[PII_REDACTED]ccb000 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 00007f62c1091e90 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007f62c10926c0
R13: ffffffffffffff88 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: 00007ffe237885b0
 </TASK>
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-416
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ed7cdf079686ccd[PII_REDACTED]700c03f6fb446; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1796ca9c6f5bd[PII_REDACTED]3af5f47d112818ee3; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d9cf07810c30ef[PII_REDACTED]d10fd1f01121d34