CVE-2024-44989

bonding: fix xfrm real_dev null pointer dereference

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

bonding: fix xfrm real_dev null pointer dereference

We shouldn't set real_dev to NULL because packets can be in transit and xfrm might call xdo_dev_offload_ok() in parallel. All callbacks assume real_dev is set.

Example trace: kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001030 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): making interface the new active one kernel: #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page kernel: PGD 0 P4D 0 kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP kernel: CPU: 4 PID: 2237 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.7.7+ #12 kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014 kernel: RIP: 0010:nsim_ipsec_offload_ok+0xc/0x20 [netdevsim] kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): bond_ipsec_add_sa_all: failed to add SA kernel: Code: e0 0f 0b 48 83 7f 38 00 74 de 0f 0b 48 8b 47 08 48 8b 37 48 8b 78 40 e9 b2 e5 9a d7 66 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 86 80 02 00 00 <83> 80 30 10 00 00 01 b8 01 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): making interface the new active one kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffabde81553b98 EFLAGS: 00010246 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): bond_ipsec_add_sa_all: failed to add SA kernel: kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9eb404e74900 RCX: ffff9eb403d97c60 kernel: RDX: ffffffffc090de10 RSI: ffff9eb404e74900 RDI: ffff9eb3c5de9e00 kernel: RBP: ffff9eb3c0a42000 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000014 kernel: R10: 7974203030303030 R11: 3030303030303030 R12: 0000000000000000 kernel: R13: ffff9eb3c5de9e00 R14: ffffabde81553cc8 R15: ffff9eb404c53000 kernel: FS: 00007f2a77a3ad00(0000) GS:ffff9eb43bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 kernel: CR2: 0000000000001030 CR3: 00000001122ab000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): making interface the new active one kernel: Call Trace: kernel: <TASK> kernel: ? __die+0x1f/0x60 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): bond_ipsec_add_sa_all: failed to add SA kernel: ? page_fault_oops+0x142/0x4c0 kernel: ? do_user_addr_fault+0x65/0x670 kernel: ? kvm_read_and_reset_apf_flags+0x3b/0x50 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): making interface the new active one kernel: ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180 kernel: ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 kernel: ? nsim_bpf_uninit+0x50/0x50 [netdevsim] kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): bond_ipsec_add_sa_all: failed to add SA kernel: ? nsim_ipsec_offload_ok+0xc/0x20 [netdevsim] kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): making interface the new active one kernel: bond_ipsec_offload_ok+0x7b/0x90 [bonding] kernel: xfrm_output+0x61/0x3b0 kernel: bond0: (slave eni0np1): bond_ipsec_add_sa_all: failed to add SA kernel: ip_push_pending_frames+0x56/0x80

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before 21816b696c172c19d53a30d45ee005cce246ed21Affected
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before 2f72c6a66bcd7e0187ec085237fee5db27145294Affected
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before 7fa9243391ad2afe798ef4ea2e2851947b95754fAffected
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before 4582d4ff413a07d4ed8a4823c652dc5207760548Affected
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before 89fc1dca79db5c3e7a2d589ecbf8a3661c65f436Affected
  • 18cb261afd7bf50134e5ccacc5ec91ea16efadd4 to before f8cde9805981c50d0c029063dc7d82821806fc44Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.9Affected
  • before 5.9Not affected
  • 5.10.225 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.166 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.107 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.48 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.7 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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