CVE-2024-53175

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

ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns

Percpu memory allocation may failed during create_ipc_ns however this fail is not handled properly since ipc sysctls and mq sysctls is not released properly. Fix this by release these two resource when failure.

Here is the kmemleak stack when percpu failed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88819de2a600 (size 512): comm shmem_2nstest, pid 120711, jiffies 4300542254 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 aa 9d 84 ff ff ff ff fc 18 48 b2 84 88 ff ff `………H….. 04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 20 e4 56 81 ff ff ff ff …….. .V….. backtrace (crc be7cba35): [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420 [] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50 [] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0 [] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0 [] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920 [] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0 [] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0 [] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650 [] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0 [] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

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/10209665b5bf199f8065b2e7d2b2dc6cdf227117
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d230cfd4b9b0558c7b2039ba1def2ce6b6cd158
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fed302872e26c7bf44d855c53a1cde747172d58
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/928de5fcd462498b8334107035da8ab85e316d8a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc8f5921cd69188627c08041276238de222ab466