CVE-2021-46936 (GCVE-0-2021-46936)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 09:44 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler
A real world panic issue was found as follow in Linux 5.4.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffde49a863de28
PGD 7e6fe62067 P4D 7e6fe62067 PUD 7e6fe63067 PMD f51e064067 PTE 0
RIP: 0010:tw_timer_handler+0x20/0x40
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x120
run_timer_softirq+0x1ef/0x450
__do_softirq+0x10d/0x2b8
irq_exit+0xc7/0xd0
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x120
apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
This issue was also reported since 2017 in the thread [1],
unfortunately, the issue was still can be reproduced after fixing
DCCP.
The ipv4_mib_exit_net is called before tcp_sk_exit_batch when a net
namespace is destroyed since tcp_sk_ops is registered befrore
ipv4_mib_ops, which means tcp_sk_ops is in the front of ipv4_mib_ops
in the list of pernet_list. There will be a use-after-free on
net->mib.net_statistics in tw_timer_handler after ipv4_mib_exit_net
if there are some inflight time-wait timers.
This bug is not introduced by commit f2bf415cfed7 ("mib: add net to
NET_ADD_STATS_BH") since the net_statistics is a global variable
instead of dynamic allocation and freeing. Actually, commit
61a7e26028b9 ("mib: put net statistics on struct net") introduces
the bug since it put net statistics on struct net and free it when
net namespace is destroyed.
Moving init_ipv4_mibs() to the front of tcp_init() to fix this bug
and replace pr_crit() with panic() since continuing is meaningless
when init_ipv4_mibs() fails.
[1] https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/p1tn-_Kc6l4/m/smuL_FMAAgAJ?pli=1
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:01 UTC
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
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| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
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(git)
Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < e73164e89d1be561228a4534e1091369ee4ba41a (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < 5c2fe20ad37ff56070ae0acb34152333976929b4 (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < a8e1944b44f94f5c5f530e434c5eaee787254566 (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < fe5838c22b986c1190f1dce9aa09bf6a491c1a69 (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < 2386e81a1d277f540e1285565c9d41d531bb69d4 (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < 08eacbd141e2495d2fcdde84358a06c4f95cbb13 (git) Affected: 61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0 , < e22e45fc9e41bf9fcc1e92cfb78eb92786728ef0 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.27
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.27 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.298 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.296 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.261 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.224 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.170 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.90 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.13 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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