CVE-2024-26834

2024-04-1710:15:09

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

netfilter

vulnerability

cve-2024-26834

resolved

kmemleak

direct xmit

dev_queue_xmit()

dst_release()

nf_tables

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

Direct xmit does not use it since it calls dev_queue_xmit() to send
packets, hence it calls dst_release().

kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff88814f440900 (size 184):
comm “softirq”, pid 0, jiffies 4294951896
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 60 5b 04 81 88 ff ff 00 e6 e8 82 ff ff ff ff .`[…
21 0b 50 82 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 !.P…
backtrace (crc cb2bf5d6):
[<000000003ee17107>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x286/0x340
[<0000000021a5de2c>] dst_alloc+0x43/0xb0
[<00000000f0671159>] rt_dst_alloc+0x2e/0x190
[<00000000fe5092c9>] __mkroute_output+0x244/0x980
[<000000005fb96fb0>] ip_route_output_flow+0xc0/0x160
[<0000000045367433>] nf_ip_route+0xf/0x30
[<0000000085da1d8e>] nf_route+0x2d/0x60
[<00000000d1ecd1cb>] nft_flow_route+0x171/0x6a0 [nft_flow_offload]
[<00000000d9b2fb60>] nft_flow_offload_eval+0x4e8/0x700 [nft_flow_offload]
[<000000009f447dbb>] expr_call_ops_eval+0x53/0x330 [nf_tables]
[<00000000072e1be6>] nft_do_chain+0x17c/0x840 [nf_tables]
[<00000000d0551029>] nft_do_chain_inet+0xa1/0x210 [nf_tables]
[<0000000097c9d5c6>] nf_hook_slow+0x5b/0x160
[<0000000005eccab1>] ip_forward+0x8b6/0x9b0
[<00000000553a269b>] ip_rcv+0x221/0x230
[<00000000412872e5>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xfe/0x110

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.5–6.6.19

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.7.7

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.8.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "7c71b831220e",
        "lessThan": "13b57b5cd591",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "9c5662e95a8d",
        "lessThan": "a6cafdb49a7b",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "fa502c865666",
        "lessThan": "9256ab9232e3",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "fa502c865666",
        "lessThan": "2d17cf10179a",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "fa502c865666",
        "lessThan": "8762785f459b",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.5",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.5",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.19",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.7",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]