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GHSA-V89R-8C65-6VGH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-12 15:31 – Updated: 2024-08-29 15:30

Details

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

bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free in bpf_link_free()

After commit 1a80dbcb2dba, bpf_link can be freed by link->ops->dealloc_deferred, but the code still tests and uses link->ops->dealloc afterward, which leads to a use-after-free as reported by syzbot. Actually, one of them should be sufficient, so just call one of them instead of both. Also add a WARN_ON() in case of any problematic implementation.

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-2024-40909 (GCVE-0-2024-40909)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:20 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:33

Title

bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free in bpf_link_free()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free in bpf_link_free() After commit 1a80dbcb2dba, bpf_link can be freed by link->ops->dealloc_deferred, but the code still tests and uses link->ops->dealloc afterward, which leads to a use-after-free as reported by syzbot. Actually, one of them should be sufficient, so just call one of them instead of both. Also add a WARN_ON() in case of any problematic implementation.

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 17:06 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa97b8fed9896f1e8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2884dc7d08d98a89d…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.35 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.6 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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