CVE-2024-35860

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.18-6.6.25, 6.7.0-6.8.4, 6.9 - Use-After-Free in BPF Link Deallocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: support deferring bpf_link dealloc to after RCU grace period BPF link for some program types is passed as a "context" which can be used by those BPF programs to look up additional information. E.g., for multi-kprobes and multi-uprobes, link is used to fetch BPF cookie values. Because of this runtime dependency, when bpf_link refcnt drops to zero there could still be active BPF programs running accessing link data. This patch adds generic support to defer bpf_link dealloc callback to after RCU GP, if requested. This is done by exposing two different deallocation callbacks, one synchronous and one deferred. If deferred one is provided, bpf_link_free() will schedule dealloc_deferred() callback to happen after RCU GP. BPF is using two flavors of RCU: "classic" non-sleepable one and RCU tasks trace one. The latter is used when sleepable BPF programs are used. bpf_link_free() accommodates that by checking underlying BPF program's sleepable flag, and goes either through normal RCU GP only for non-sleepable, or through RCU tasks trace GP *and* then normal RCU GP (taking into account rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() optimization), if BPF program is sleepable. We use this for multi-kprobe and multi-uprobe links, which dereference link during program run. We also preventively switch raw_tp link to use deferred dealloc callback, as upcoming changes in bpf-next tree expose raw_tp link data (specifically, cookie value) to BPF program at runtime as well.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.3%
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 (12)
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 6.6.26linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1 - 1a80dbcb2dbaf6e4c216e62e30fa7d3daa8001ce
Linux/Linux 0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1 - 5d8d447777564b35f67000e7838e7ccb64d525c8
Linux/Linux 0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1 - 876941f533e7b47fc69977fc4551c02f2d18af97
Linux/Linux 5.18
Linux/Linux 6.6.26 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.8.5 - 6.8.*
Linux/Linux 6.9
... and 2 more
Published May 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026