net/tls: Fix use-after-free after the TLS device goes down and up (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.75 % · percentile 55 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: Fix use-after-free after the TLS device goes down and up When a netdev with active TLS offload goes down, tls_device_down is called to stop the offload and tear down the TLS context. However, the socket stays alive, and it still points to the TLS context, which is now deallocated. If a netdev goes up, while the connection is still active, and the data flow resumes after a number of TCP retransmissions, it will lead to a use-after-free of the TLS context. This commit addresses this bug by keeping the context alive until its normal destruction, and implements the necessary fallbacks, so that the connection can resume in software (non-offloaded) kTLS mode. On the TX side tls_sw_fallback is used to encrypt all packets. The RX side already has all the necessary fallbacks, because receiving non-decrypted packets is supported. The thing needed on the RX side is to block resync requests, which are normally produced after receiving non-decrypted packets. The necessary synchronization is implemented for a graceful teardown: first the fallbacks are deployed, then the driver resources are released (it used to be possible to have a tls_dev_resync after tls_dev_del). A new flag called TLS_RX_DEV_DEGRADED is added to indicate the fallback mode. It's used to skip the RX resync logic completely, as it becomes useless, and some objects may be released (for example, resync_async, which is allocated and freed by the driver).
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-416 — Use After Free
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-33779
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-47131
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0716 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0667 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0645 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0526 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0496 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0420 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 4.18 < 5.10.43cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 5.11 < 5.12.10cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected e8f69799810c32dd40c6724d829eccc70baad07f < f1d4184f128dede82a59a841658ed40d4e6d3aa2 ; affected e8f69799810c32dd40c6724d829eccc70baad07f < 0f1e6fe66977a864fe850522316f713d7b926fd9 ; affected e8f69799810c32dd40c6724d829eccc70baad07f < c55dcdd435aa6c6ad6ccac0a4c636d010ee367a4 |
| Linux · Linux | affected 4.18 ; unaffected 0 < 4.18 ; unaffected 5.10.43 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.12.10 ≤ 5.12.* ; unaffected 5.13 ≤ * |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |