CVE-2024-26961
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-01T05:19:16.361Z
State: PUBLISHED
descriptions: value: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del

mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without
following the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This
may lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the
list of keys in parallel with a key deletion:

refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0
 mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0
 ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690
 sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20
 dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60
 __sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
 do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Also, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by
mac802154_llsec_key_del():

unreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64):
  comm "iwpan", pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de  x.......".......
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81dcfa62>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0
    [<ffffffff81c43865>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0
    [<ffffffff88968b09>] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0
    [<ffffffff8896e41a>] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80
    [<ffffffff8892adc6>] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0
    [<ffffffff86ff293e>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0
    [<ffffffff86ff46d1>] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0
    [<ffffffff86fee7a9>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440
    [<ffffffff86ff1d88>] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
    [<ffffffff86fec15c>] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820
    [<ffffffff86fecd8b>] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60
    [<ffffffff86b91b35>] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0
    [<ffffffff86b9c3dd>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0
    [<ffffffff86b9c65a>] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0
    [<ffffffff88eadbf5>] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
    [<ffffffff890000ea>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Handle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function
mac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().

Note that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via
llsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a
list element). So it's safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list
entry after the RCU grace period elapses.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
affected: product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: unaffected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions: version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: 068ab2759bc0
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: d3d858650933
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: dcd51ab42b7a
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: 20d3e1c8a184
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: 640297c3e897
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: 49c8951680d7
status: affected
versionType: git
version: 5d637d5aabd8
lessThan: e8a1e58345cf
status: affected
versionType: git
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: affected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions: version: 3.16
status: affected
version: 0
lessThan: 3.16
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 5.10.215
lessThanOrEqual: 5.10.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 5.15.154
lessThanOrEqual: 5.15.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.1.84
lessThanOrEqual: 6.1.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.6.24
lessThanOrEqual: 6.6.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.7.12
lessThanOrEqual: 6.7.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.8.3
lessThanOrEqual: 6.8.*
status: unaffected
versionType: custom
version: 6.9
lessThanOrEqual: *
status: unaffected
versionType: original_commit_for_fix
title: mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del
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