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Ubuntu: USN-7521-1 (CVE-2024-57982): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7521-1 (CVE-2024-57982): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/27/2025
Created
05/22/2025
Added
05/21/2025
Modified
05/21/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: state: fix out-of-bounds read during lookup lookup and resize can run in parallel. The xfrm_state_hash_generation seqlock ensures a retry, but the hash functions can observe a hmask value that is too large for the new hlist array. rehash does: rcu_assign_pointer(net->xfrm.state_bydst, ndst) [..] net->xfrm.state_hmask = nhashmask; While state lookup does: h = xfrm_dst_hash(net, daddr, saddr, tmpl->reqid, encap_family); hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(x, net->xfrm.state_bydst + h, bydst) { This is only safe in case the update to state_bydst is larger than net->xfrm.xfrm_state_hmask (or if the lookup function gets serialized via state spinlock again). Fix this by prefetching state_hmask and the associated pointers. The xfrm_state_hash_generation seqlock retry will ensure that the pointer and the hmask will be consistent. The existing helpers, like xfrm_dst_hash(), are now unsafe for RCU side, add lockdep assertions to document that they are only safe for insert side. xfrm_state_lookup_byaddr() uses the spinlock rather than RCU. AFAICS this is an oversight from back when state lookup was converted to RCU, this lock should be replaced with RCU in a future patch.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1010-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1013-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-gcp-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1022-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-26-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-26-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

References

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