CVE-2024-42108CWE-416

CVE-2024-42108

Critical · published July 30, 2024

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll()

The use-after-free is actually in rswitch_tx_free(), which is inlined in

rswitch_poll(). Since `skb` and `gq->skbs[gq->dirty]` are in fact the

same pointer, the skb is first freed using dev_kfree_skb_any(), then the

value in skb->len is used to update the interface statistics.

Let's move around the instructions to use skb->len before the skb is

freed.

This bug is trivial to reproduce using KFENCE. It will trigger a splat

every few packets. A simple ARP request or ICMP echo request is enough.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00631 · 49.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2024-07-30T12:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.9.96.9.9
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUL 07:46Z
    net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll()
    cvelistv5