CVE-2024-35895

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.20-6.8.4 - BPF Sockmap Delete Operation Improper Locking

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Prevent lock inversion deadlock in map delete elem syzkaller started using corpuses where a BPF tracing program deletes elements from a sockmap/sockhash map. Because BPF tracing programs can be invoked from any interrupt context, locks taken during a map_delete_elem operation must be hardirq-safe. Otherwise a deadlock due to lock inversion is possible, as reported by lockdep: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock); local_irq_disable(); lock(&host->lock); lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock); <Interrupt> lock(&host->lock); Locks in sockmap are hardirq-unsafe by design. We expects elements to be deleted from sockmap/sockhash only in task (normal) context with interrupts enabled, or in softirq context. Detect when map_delete_elem operation is invoked from a context which is _not_ hardirq-unsafe, that is interrupts are disabled, and bail out with an error. Note that map updates are not affected by this issue. BPF verifier does not allow updating sockmap/sockhash from a BPF tracing program today.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.3%
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

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (25)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.274linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.154linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.85linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.215linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.26linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.5linux
Linux/Linux < 4.20
Linux/Linux 4.20
Linux/Linux 5.10.215 - 5.10.*
... and 15 more
Published May 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026