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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50085

MediumCVSS 5.5 / 10
Published Oct 29, 2024·Last modified Jun 15, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: pm: fix UaF read in mptcp_pm_nl_rm_addr_or_subflow Syzkaller reported this splat: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mptcp_pm_nl_rm_addr_or_subflow+0xb44/0xcc0 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:881 Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880569ac858 by task syz.1.2799/14662 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14662 Comm: syz.1.2799 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00307-g36c254515dc6 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601 mptcp_pm_nl_rm_addr_or_subflow+0xb44/0xcc0 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:881 mptcp_pm_nl_rm_subflow_received net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:914 [inline] mptcp_nl_remove_id_zero_address+0x305/0x4a0 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1572 mptcp_pm_nl_del_addr_doit+0x5c9/0x770 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1603 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline] genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210 netlink_rcv_skb+0x165/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2551 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1331 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1357 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:744 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0x9ae/0xb40 net/socket.c:2607 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2661 __sys_sendmsg+0x117/0x1f0 net/socket.c:2690 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:165 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x73/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:386 do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:411 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e RIP: 0023:0xf7fe4579 Code: b8 01 10 06 03 74 b4 01 10 07 03 74 b0 01 10 08 03 74 d8 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 51 52 55 89 e5 0f 34 cd 80 <5d> 5a 59 c3 90 90 90 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 RSP: 002b:00000000f574556c EFLAGS: 00000296 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000172 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 0000000020000140 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000296 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> Allocated by task 5387: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline] kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline] subflow_create_ctx+0x87/0x2a0 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1803 subflow_ulp_init+0xc3/0x4d0 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1956 __tcp_set_ulp net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:146 [inline] tcp_set_ulp+0x326/0x7f0 net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c:167 mptcp_subflow_create_socket+0x4ae/0x10a0 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1764 __mptcp_subflow_connect+0x3cc/0x1490 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1592 mptcp_pm_create_subflow_or_signal_addr+0xbda/0x23a0 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:642 mptcp_pm_nl_fully_established net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:650 [inline] mptcp_pm_nl_work+0x3a1/0x4f0 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:943 mptcp_worker+0x15a/0x1240 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2777 process_one_work+0x958/0x1b30 kernel/workqueue.c:3229 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3310 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf00 kernel/workqueue.c:3391 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/ke ---truncated---

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.5

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
5.1

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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