CVE-2024-57982CWE-125

CVE-2024-57982

High · published February 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

xfrm: state: fix out-of-bounds read during lookup

lookup and resize can run in parallel.

The xfrm_state_hash_generation seqlock ensures a retry, but the hash

functions can observe a hmask value that is too large for the new hlist

array.

rehash does:

rcu_assign_pointer(net->xfrm.state_bydst, ndst) [..]

net->xfrm.state_hmask = nhashmask;

While state lookup does:

h = xfrm_dst_hash(net, daddr, saddr, tmpl->reqid, encap_family);

hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(x, net->xfrm.state_bydst + h, bydst) {

This is only safe in case the update to state_bydst is larger than

net->xfrm.xfrm_state_hmask (or if the lookup function gets

serialized via state spinlock again).

Fix this by prefetching state_hmask and the associated pointers.

The xfrm_state_hash_generation seqlock retry will ensure that the pointer

and the hmask will be consistent.

The existing helpers, like xfrm_dst_hash(), are now unsafe for RCU side,

add lockdep assertions to document that they are only safe for insert

side.

xfrm_state_lookup_byaddr() uses the spinlock rather than RCU.

AFAICS this is an oversight from back when state lookup was converted to

RCU, this lock should be replaced with RCU in a future patch.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00254 · 16.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-02-27T07:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 6.12.136.12.13
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.13.26.13.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 02:07Z
    xfrm: state: fix out-of-bounds read during lookup
    cvelistv5