CVE-2024-27394

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

tcp: Fix Use-After-Free in tcp_ao_connect_init

Since call_rcu, which is called in the hlist_for_each_entry_rcu traversal of tcp_ao_connect_init, is not part of the RCU read critical section, it is possible that the RCU grace period will pass during the traversal and the key will be free.

To prevent this, it should be changed to hlist_for_each_entry_safe.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80e679b352c3ce5158f3f778cfb77eb767e586fb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca4fb6c6764b3f75b4f5aa81db1536291897ff7f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80e679b352c3ce5158f3f778cfb77eb767e586fb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca4fb6c6764b3f75b4f5aa81db1536291897ff7f