CVE-2022-48976

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in Netfilter Flowtable Offload

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable_offload: fix using __this_cpu_add in preemptible flow_offload_queue_work() can be called in workqueue without bh disabled, like the call trace showed in my act_ct testing, calling NF_FLOW_TABLE_STAT_INC() there would cause a call trace: BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: kworker/u4:0/138560 caller is flow_offload_queue_work+0xec/0x1b0 [nf_flow_table] Workqueue: act_ct_workqueue tcf_ct_flow_table_cleanup_work [act_ct] Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x46 check_preemption_disabled+0xc3/0xf0 flow_offload_queue_work+0xec/0x1b0 [nf_flow_table] nf_flow_table_iterate+0x138/0x170 [nf_flow_table] nf_flow_table_free+0x140/0x1a0 [nf_flow_table] tcf_ct_flow_table_cleanup_work+0x2f/0x2b0 [act_ct] process_one_work+0x6a3/0x1030 worker_thread+0x8a/0xdf0 This patch fixes it by using NF_FLOW_TABLE_STAT_INC_ATOMIC() instead in flow_offload_queue_work(). Note that for FLOW_CLS_REPLACE branch in flow_offload_queue_work(), it may not be called in preemptible path, but it's good to use NF_FLOW_TABLE_STAT_INC_ATOMIC() for all cases in flow_offload_queue_work().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.0.13linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 5.15.157 - 5.16
Linux/Linux 5345d78ae64d5a760c211cd2da995dc71c5b29e4
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.0.13 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux b038177636f83bbf87c2b238706474145dd2cd04 - a220a11fda012fba506b35929672374c2723ae6d
Linux/Linux b038177636f83bbf87c2b238706474145dd2cd04 - a81047154e7ce4eb8769d5d21adcbc9693542a79
linux/linux_kernel 6.11 rc1 (8 CPE variants)
... and 1 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026