Race Condition Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-8261557
- published 23 Oct 2024
- disclosed 21 Oct 2024
Introduced: 21 Oct 2024
New CVE-2024-49864 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix a race between socket set up and I/O thread creation
In rxrpc_open_socket(), it sets up the socket and then sets up the I/O thread that will handle it. This is a problem, however, as there's a gap between the two phases in which a packet may come into rxrpc_encap_rcv() from the UDP packet but we oops when trying to wake the not-yet created I/O thread.
As a quick fix, just make rxrpc_encap_rcv() discard the packet if there's no I/O thread yet.
A better, but more intrusive fix would perhaps be to rearrange things such that the socket creation is done by the I/O thread.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49864
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56e415202b8a17de6496f4023e545fcb66f118ec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc212465326e8587325f520a052346f0b57360e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c64f5fc95e9612fdf75587c8e21e494e614c18e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdf4bbbdb956d7426f687f38757ebca2a2759a0f