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GHSA-7XQ6-R35J-J33M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-22 09:31 – Updated: 2025-01-14 18:31

Details

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

can: j1939: j1939_netdev_start(): fix UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv

It will trigger UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv as following.

    cpu0                                    cpu1

j1939_sk_bind(socket0, ndev0, ...) j1939_netdev_start j1939_sk_bind(socket1, ndev0, ...) j1939_netdev_start j1939_priv_set j1939_priv_get_by_ndev_locked j1939_jsk_add ..... j1939_netdev_stop kref_put_lock(&priv->rx_kref, ...) kref_get(&priv->rx_kref, ...) REFCOUNT_WARN("addition on 0;...")

==================================================== refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20874 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x169/0x1e0 RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x169/0x1e0 Call Trace: j1939_netdev_start+0x68b/0x920 j1939_sk_bind+0x426/0xeb0 ? security_socket_bind+0x83/0xb0

The rx_kref's kref_get() and kref_put() should use j1939_netdev_lock to protect.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2021-47459 (GCVE-0-2021-47459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-22 06:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:47

Title

can: j1939: j1939_netdev_start(): fix UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: j1939_netdev_start(): fix UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv It will trigger UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv as following. cpu0 cpu1 j1939_sk_bind(socket0, ndev0, ...) j1939_netdev_start j1939_sk_bind(socket1, ndev0, ...) j1939_netdev_start j1939_priv_set j1939_priv_get_by_ndev_locked j1939_jsk_add ..... j1939_netdev_stop kref_put_lock(&priv->rx_kref, ...) kref_get(&priv->rx_kref, ...) REFCOUNT_WARN("addition on 0;...") ==================================================== refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20874 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x169/0x1e0 RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x169/0x1e0 Call Trace: j1939_netdev_start+0x68b/0x920 j1939_sk_bind+0x426/0xeb0 ? security_socket_bind+0x83/0xb0 The rx_kref's kref_get() and kref_put() should use j1939_netdev_lock to protect.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:36 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/864e77771a24c877a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e8811707e2df0c6b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9d52a3ebd284882f…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c , < a0e47d2833b4f65e6c799f28c6b636d36b8b936d (git) Affected: 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c , < 864e77771a24c877aaf53aee019f78619cbcd668 (git) Affected: 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c , < 6e8811707e2df0c6ba920f0cad3a3bca7b42132f (git) Affected: 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c , < d9d52a3ebd284882f5562c88e55991add5d01586 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.4 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.156 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.76 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.14.15 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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