CVE-2024-53118

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

vsock: Fix sk_error_queue memory leak

Kernel queues MSG_ZEROCOPY completion notifications on the error queue. Where they remain, until explicitly recv()ed. To prevent memory leaks, clean up the queue when the socket is destroyed.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881028beb00 (size 224): comm vsock_test, pid 1218, jiffies 4294694897 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff 90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff ..!…….!….. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff ……….!….. backtrace (crc 6c7031ca): [] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2f7/0x370 [] __alloc_skb+0x132/0x180 [] sock_omalloc+0x4b/0x80 [] msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x9e/0x240 [] virtio_transport_send_pkt_info+0x412/0x4c0 [] virtio_transport_stream_enqueue+0x43/0x50 [] vsock_connectible_sendmsg+0x373/0x450 [] ____sys_sendmsg+0x365/0x3a0 [] ___sys_sendmsg+0x84/0xd0 [] __sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x80 [] do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bea4779a45f49275b1e1b1bd9de03cd3727244d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbf7085b3ad1c7cc0677834c90f985f1b4f77a33