CVE-2024-53175

ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Nov 19, 2024

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Description

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

ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns

Percpu memory allocation may failed during create_ipc_ns however this fail is not handled properly since ipc sysctls and mq sysctls is not released properly. Fix this by release these two resource when failure.

Here is the kmemleak stack when percpu failed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88819de2a600 (size 512): comm "shmem_2nstest", pid 120711, jiffies 4300542254 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 aa 9d 84 ff ff ff ff fc 18 48 b2 84 88 ff ff `.........H..... 04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 20 e4 56 81 ff ff ff ff ........ .V..... backtrace (crc be7cba35): [<ffffffff81b43f83>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420 [<ffffffff81a52e56>] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50 [<ffffffff821b2f37>] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0 [<ffffffff821b29cc>] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0 [<ffffffff815d6a10>] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920 [<ffffffff815d7449>] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0 [<ffffffff815458f3>] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0 [<ffffffff8154b080>] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650 [<ffffffff8154b6b1>] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0 [<ffffffff843df8ff>] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0 [<ffffffff846000b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 72d1e611082eda18689106a0c192f2827072713c to before 3d230cfd4b9b0558c7b2039ba1def2ce6b6cd158Affected
  • 72d1e611082eda18689106a0c192f2827072713c to before 10209665b5bf199f8065b2e7d2b2dc6cdf227117Affected
  • 72d1e611082eda18689106a0c192f2827072713c to before 8fed302872e26c7bf44d855c53a1cde747172d58Affected
  • 72d1e611082eda18689106a0c192f2827072713c to before 928de5fcd462498b8334107035da8ab85e316d8aAffected
  • 72d1e611082eda18689106a0c192f2827072713c to before bc8f5921cd69188627c08041276238de222ab466Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 6.1.120 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.64 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.11 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12.2 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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