Use After Free Affecting kernel-azure-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.33.72.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Use After Free vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELAZUREDEVEL-8377719
  • published14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed13 Nov 2024

Introduced: 13 Nov 2024

CVE-2022-49017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-azure-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.33.72.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure-devel package and not the kernel-azure-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

tipc: re-fetch skb cb after tipc_msg_validate

As the call trace shows, the original skb was freed in tipc_msg_validate(), and dereferencing the old skb cb would cause an use-after-free crash.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tipc_crypto_rcv_complete+0x1835/0x2240 [tipc] Call Trace: <IRQ> tipc_crypto_rcv_complete+0x1835/0x2240 [tipc] tipc_crypto_rcv+0xd32/0x1ec0 [tipc] tipc_rcv+0x744/0x1150 [tipc] ... Allocated by task 47078: kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x158/0x4d0 __alloc_skb+0x1c1/0x270 tipc_buf_acquire+0x1e/0xe0 [tipc] tipc_msg_create+0x33/0x1c0 [tipc] tipc_link_build_proto_msg+0x38a/0x2100 [tipc] tipc_link_timeout+0x8b8/0xef0 [tipc] tipc_node_timeout+0x2a1/0x960 [tipc] call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x1c0 ... Freed by task 47078: tipc_msg_validate+0x7b/0x440 [tipc] tipc_crypto_rcv_complete+0x4b5/0x2240 [tipc] tipc_crypto_rcv+0xd32/0x1ec0 [tipc] tipc_rcv+0x744/0x1150 [tipc]

This patch fixes it by re-fetching the skb cb from the new allocated skb after calling tipc_msg_validate().

CVSS Scores

version 3.1