CVE-2024-44946 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 31
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket.
syzkaller reported UAF in kcm_release(). [0]
The scenario is
1. Thread A builds a skb with MSG_MORE and sets kcm->seq_skb.
2. Thread A resumes building skb from kcm->seq_skb but is blocked
by sk_stream_wait_memory()
3. Thread B calls sendmsg() concurrently, finishes building kcm->seq_skb
and puts the skb to the write queue
4. Thread A faces an error and finally frees skb t…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6