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HistoryAug 26, 2024 - 10:11 a.m.

CVE-2024-44932 idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues

2024-08-2610:11:23
Linux
github.com
2
linux
kernel
vulnerability
fix
uafs
destroying
queues

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues

The second tagged commit started sometimes (very rarely, but possible)
throwing WARNs from
net/core/page_pool.c:page_pool_disable_direct_recycling().
Turned out idpf frees interrupt vectors with embedded NAPIs before
freeing the queues making page_pools’ NAPI pointers lead to freed
memory before these pools are destroyed by libeth.
It’s not clear whether there are other accesses to the freed vectors
when destroying the queues, but anyway, we usually free queue/interrupt
vectors only when the queues are destroyed and the NAPIs are guaranteed
to not be referenced anywhere.

Invert the allocation and freeing logic making queue/interrupt vectors
be allocated first and freed last. Vectors don’t require queues to be
present, so this is safe. Additionally, this change allows to remove
that useless queue->q_vector pointer cleanup, as vectors are still
valid when freeing the queues (+ both are freed within one function,
so it’s not clear why nullify the pointers at all).

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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