CVE-2024-36286

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: acquire rcu_read_lock() in instance_destroy_rcu()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jun 21, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 21, 2024

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Description

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

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: acquire rcu_read_lock() in instance_destroy_rcu()

syzbot reported that nf_reinject() could be called without rcu_read_lock() :

WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a #0 Not tainted

net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:263 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 2 locks held by syz-executor.4/13427: #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:329 [inline] #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2190 [inline] #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_core+0xa86/0x1830 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2471 #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline] #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: nfqnl_flush net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:405 [inline] #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: instance_destroy_rcu+0x30/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:172

stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 13427 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x221/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6712 nf_reinject net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:323 [inline] nfqnl_reinject+0x6ec/0x1120 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:397 nfqnl_flush net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:410 [inline] instance_destroy_rcu+0x1ae/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:172 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2196 [inline] rcu_core+0xafd/0x1830 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2471 handle_softirqs+0x2d6/0x990 kernel/softirq.c:554 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:588 [inline] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:428 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0xf4/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:637 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:649 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043 [inline] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043 </IRQ> <TASK>

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 8658bd777cbfcb0c13df23d0ea120e70517761b9Affected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 3989b817857f4890fab9379221a9d3f52bf5c256Affected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before e01065b339e323b3dfa1be217fd89e9b3208b0abAffected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 25ea5377e3d2921a0f96ae2551f5ab1b36825dd4Affected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 68f40354a3851df46c27be96b84f11ae193e36c5Affected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 8f365564af898819a523f1a8cf5c6ce053e9f718Affected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before 215df6490e208bfdd5b3012f5075e7f8736f3e7aAffected
  • 9872bec773c2e8503fec480c1e8a0c732517e257 to before dc21c6cc3d6986d938efbf95de62473982c98decAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.25Affected
  • before 2.6.25Not affected
  • 4.19.316 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.278 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.219 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.161 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.93 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.33 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9.4 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

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