CVE-2024-53175

ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns

Medium · published December 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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):

[<ffffffff81b43f83>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420

[<ffffffff81a52e56>] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50

[<ffffffff821b2f37>] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0

[<ffffffff821b29cc>] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0

[<ffffffff815d6a10>] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920

[<ffffffff815d7449>] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0

[<ffffffff815458f3>] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0

[<ffffffff8154b080>] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650

[<ffffffff8154b6b1>] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0

[<ffffffff843df8ff>] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0

[<ffffffff846000b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00236 · 13.7th percentile
Published
2024-12-27T13:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 13:49Z
    ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns
    cvelistv5