CVE-2024-26800

tls: fix use-after-free on failed backlog decryption

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Apr 4, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

tls: fix use-after-free on failed backlog decryption

When the decrypt request goes to the backlog and crypto_aead_decrypt returns -EBUSY, tls_do_decryption will wait until all async decryptions have completed. If one of them fails, tls_do_decryption will return -EBADMSG and tls_decrypt_sg jumps to the error path, releasing all the pages. But the pages have been passed to the async callback, and have already been released by tls_decrypt_done.

The only true async case is when crypto_aead_decrypt returns -EINPROGRESS. With -EBUSY, we already waited so we can tell tls_sw_recvmsg that the data is available for immediate copy, but we need to notify tls_decrypt_sg (via the new ->async_done flag) that the memory has already been released.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72 to before f2b85a4cc763841843de693bbd7308fe9a2c4c89Affected
  • 13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754 to before 81be85353b0f5a7b660635634b655329b429eefeAffected
  • ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694 to before 1ac9fb84bc7ecd4bc6428118301d9d864d2a58d1Affected
  • 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3 to before 13114dc5543069f7b97991e3b79937b6da05f5b0Affected
  • 3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368Affected
  • 5.15.160 to before 5.16Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6.18 to before 6.6.21Affected
  • 6.7.6 to before 6.7.9Affected

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