CVE-2024-53211 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PERF-8586771
  • published31 Dec 2024
  • disclosed27 Dec 2024

Introduced: 27 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-53211  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.

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

net/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot

In l2tp's net exit handler, we check that an IDR is empty before destroying it:

WARN_ON_ONCE(!idr_is_empty(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr));
idr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr);

By forcing memory allocation failures in idr_alloc_32, syzbot is able to provoke a condition where idr_is_empty returns false despite there being no items in the IDR. This turns out to be because the radix tree of the IDR contains only internal radix-tree nodes and it is this that causes idr_is_empty to return false. The internal nodes are cleaned by idr_destroy.

Use idr_for_each to check that the IDR is empty instead of idr_is_empty to avoid the problem.