CVE-2024-53211

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12-6.12.1 - Denial of Service via IDR Memory Allocation Failure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot In l2tp's net exit handler, we check that an IDR is empty before destroying it: WARN_ON_ONCE(!idr_is_empty(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr)); idr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr); By forcing memory allocation failures in idr_alloc_32, syzbot is able to provoke a condition where idr_is_empty returns false despite there being no items in the IDR. This turns out to be because the radix tree of the IDR contains only internal radix-tree nodes and it is this that causes idr_is_empty to return false. The internal nodes are cleaned by idr_destroy. Use idr_for_each to check that the IDR is empty instead of idr_is_empty to avoid the problem.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.2linux
Linux/Linux < 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12.2 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 73d33bd063c4cfef3db17f9bec3d202928ed8631 - 5d066766c5f1252f98ff859265bcd1a5b52ac46c
Linux/Linux 73d33bd063c4cfef3db17f9bec3d202928ed8631 - a487cc8986d6dd75b60b59004f3bd2ea9b4dd541
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.2
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026