CVE-2024-44932

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.7-6.10.4 - Use-After-Free in Queue Destruction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues The second tagged commit started sometimes (very rarely, but possible) throwing WARNs from net/core/page_pool.c:page_pool_disable_direct_recycling(). Turned out idpf frees interrupt vectors with embedded NAPIs *before* freeing the queues making page_pools' NAPI pointers lead to freed memory before these pools are destroyed by libeth. It's not clear whether there are other accesses to the freed vectors when destroying the queues, but anyway, we usually free queue/interrupt vectors only when the queues are destroyed and the NAPIs are guaranteed to not be referenced anywhere. Invert the allocation and freeing logic making queue/interrupt vectors be allocated first and freed last. Vectors don't require queues to be present, so this is safe. Additionally, this change allows to remove that useless queue->q_vector pointer cleanup, as vectors are still valid when freeing the queues (+ both are freed within one function, so it's not clear why nullify the pointers at all).

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.7
Linux/Linux 1c325aac10a82f11410da8a2bf35e3e410a42751 - 290f1c033281c1a502a3cd1c53c3a549259c491f
Linux/Linux 1c325aac10a82f11410da8a2bf35e3e410a42751 - 3cde714b0e77206ed1b5cf31f28c18ba9ae946fd
Linux/Linux 6.10.5 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.7
linux/linux_kernel 6.11 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.7 - 6.10.5
Published Aug 26, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026