CVE-2024-49940

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.11.3 - Use-After-Free in L2TP Session Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow When a session is created, it sets a backpointer to its tunnel. When the session refcount drops to 0, l2tp_session_free drops the tunnel refcount if session->tunnel is non-NULL. However, session->tunnel is set in l2tp_session_create, before the tunnel refcount is incremented by l2tp_session_register, which leaves a small window where session->tunnel is non-NULL when the tunnel refcount hasn't been bumped. Moving the assignment to l2tp_session_register is trivial but l2tp_session_create calls l2tp_session_set_header_len which uses session->tunnel to get the tunnel's encap. Add an encap arg to l2tp_session_set_header_len to avoid using session->tunnel. If l2tpv3 sessions have colliding IDs, it is possible for l2tp_v3_session_get to race with l2tp_session_register and fetch a session which doesn't yet have session->tunnel set. Add a check for this case.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.6%
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 (18)
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 6.11.3linux
Linux/Linux < 4.15
Linux/Linux 10c15ddabbcf888922adbdd44ca3fecf6eab19d9
Linux/Linux 12b5fb58ac993c24210cf8cbc72d407d3a4e6490
Linux/Linux 3.16.54 - 3.17
Linux/Linux 3.2.99 - 3.3
Linux/Linux 3953ae7b218df4d1e544b98a393666f9ae58a78c - 24256415d18695b46da06c93135f5b51c548b950
Linux/Linux 3953ae7b218df4d1e544b98a393666f9ae58a78c - f7415e60c25a6108cd7955a20b2e66b6251ffe02
Linux/Linux 4.14.182 - 4.15
Linux/Linux 4.15
... and 8 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026