CVE-2024-35955

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in Kprobe Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kprobes: Fix possible use-after-free issue on kprobe registration When unloading a module, its state is changing MODULE_STATE_LIVE -> MODULE_STATE_GOING -> MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. Each change will take a time. `is_module_text_address()` and `__module_text_address()` works with MODULE_STATE_LIVE and MODULE_STATE_GOING. If we use `is_module_text_address()` and `__module_text_address()` separately, there is a chance that the first one is succeeded but the next one is failed because module->state becomes MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED between those operations. In `check_kprobe_address_safe()`, if the second `__module_text_address()` is failed, that is ignored because it expected a kernel_text address. But it may have failed simply because module->state has been changed to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. In this case, arm_kprobe() will try to modify non-exist module text address (use-after-free). To fix this problem, we should not use separated `is_module_text_address()` and `__module_text_address()`, but use only `__module_text_address()` once and do `try_module_get(module)` which is only available with MODULE_STATE_LIVE.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (31)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 16a544f1e013ba0660612f3fe35393b143b19a84
Linux/Linux 1c836bad43f3e2ff71cc397a6e6ccb4e7bd116f8 - b5808d40093403334d939e2c3c417144d12a6f33
Linux/Linux 28f6c37a2910f565b4f5960df52b2eccae28c891 - 325f3fb551f8cd672dbbfc4cf58b14f9ee3fc9e8
Linux/Linux 28f6c37a2910f565b4f5960df52b2eccae28c891 - 36b57c7d2f8b7de224980f1a284432846ad71ca0
Linux/Linux 28f6c37a2910f565b4f5960df52b2eccae28c891 - 62029bc9ff2c17a4e3a2478d83418ec575413808
Linux/Linux 28f6c37a2910f565b4f5960df52b2eccae28c891 - d15023fb407337028a654237d8968fefdcf87c2f
Linux/Linux 2a49b025c36ae749cee7ccc4b7e456e02539cdc3 - 5062d1f4f07facbdade0f402d9a04a788f52e26d
Linux/Linux 4.14.291 - 4.15
... and 21 more
Published May 20, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026