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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 21, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc()

syzbot found hanging tasks waiting on rtnl_lock [1]

A reproducer is available in the syzbot bug.

When a request to add multiple actions with the same index is sent, the
second request will block forever on the first request. This holds
rtnl_lock, and causes tasks to hang.

Return -EAGAIN to prevent infinite looping, while keeping documented
behavior.

[1]

INFO: task kworker/1:0:5088 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-syzkaller-00173-g3cdb45594619 #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/1:0 state:D stack:23744 pid:5088 tgid:5088 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: events_power_efficient reg_check_chans_work
Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5409 [inline]
__schedule+0xf15/0x5d00 kernel/sched/core.c:6746
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6823 [inline]
schedule+0xe7/0x350 kernel/sched/core.c:6838
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:6895
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:684 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x5b8/0x9c0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
wiphy_lock include/net/cfg80211.h:5953 [inline]
reg_leave_invalid_chans net/wireless/reg.c:2466 [inline]
reg_check_chans_work+0x10a/0x10e0 net/wireless/reg.c:2481

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Aug 21, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-40995

GHSA ID

GHSA-3f2p-5jcv-cffx

Source code

No known source code

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