CVE-2024-26831

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.6-6.6.18, 6.7-6.7.6 - Use-After-Free in Handshake Request Destruction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1 Recently, handshake_req_destroy_test1 started failing: Expected handshake_req_destroy_test == req, but handshake_req_destroy_test == 0000000000000000 req == 0000000060f99b40 not ok 11 req_destroy works This is because "sock_release(sock)" was replaced with "fput(filp)" to address a memory leak. Note that sock_release() is synchronous but fput() usually delays the final close and clean-up. The delay is not consequential in the other cases that were changed but handshake_req_destroy_test1 is testing that handshake_req_cancel() followed by closing the file actually does call the ->hp_destroy method. Thus the PTR_EQ test at the end has to be sure that the final close is complete before it checks the pointer. We cannot use a completion here because if ->hp_destroy is never called (ie, there is an API bug) then the test will hang. Reported by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
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

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 6.6.0 - 6.6.18linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.6linux
Linux/Linux < 6.6
Linux/Linux 1751e44980466e3ebc246d22d3ebd422197704b6
Linux/Linux 4a0f07d71b0483cc08c03cefa7c85749e187c214 - 4e1d71cabb19ec2586827adfc60d68689c68c194
Linux/Linux 4a0f07d71b0483cc08c03cefa7c85749e187c214 - 7f97805b8df6e33850e225e6bd3ebd9e246920af
Linux/Linux 4a0f07d71b0483cc08c03cefa7c85749e187c214 - d74226e03df1bf19848f18344401f254345af912
Linux/Linux 6.5.6 - 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.6.18 - 6.6.*
... and 5 more
Published Apr 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026