CVE-2024-26961

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del

mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without following the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This may lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the list of keys in parallel with a key deletion:

refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0 Modules linked in: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0 Call Trace: llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0 mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0 ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690 sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20 dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60 __sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Also, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by mac802154_llsec_key_del():

unreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64): comm iwpan, pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de x………….. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace: [] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0 [] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0 [] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0 [] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80 [] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0 [] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0 [] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0 [] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440 [] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 [] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820 [] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60 [] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0 [] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 [] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0 [] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Handle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function mac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().

Note that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via llsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a list element). So its safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list entry after the RCU grace period elapses.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/068ab2759bc0b4daf0b964de61b2731449c86531
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20d3e1c8a1847497269f04d874b2a5818ec29e2d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c8951680d7b76fceaee89dcfbab1363fb24fd1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/640297c3e897bd7e1481466a6a5cb9560f1edb88
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3d858650933d44ac12c1f31337e7110c2071821
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcd51ab42b7a0431575689c5f74b8b6efd45fc2f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8a1e58345cf40b7b272e08ac7b32328b2543e40
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html