CVE-2024-44946Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416Use After Free38 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

Affected Packages14 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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📋Vendor Advisories

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