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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-42108

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/30/2024 4:15:03 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll()

The use-after-free is actually in rswitch_tx_free(), which is inlined in
rswitch_poll(). Since `skb` and `gq->skbs[gq->dirty]` are in fact the
same pointer, the skb is first freed using dev_kfree_skb_any(), then the
value in skb->len is used to update the interface statistics.

Let's move around the instructions to use skb->len before the skb is
freed.

This bug is trivial to reproduce using KFENCE. It will trigger a splat
every few packets. A simple ARP request or ICMP echo request is enough.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92cbbe7759193e3418f38d0d73f8fe125312c58b [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a0c28efeec6383ef22e97437616b920e7320b67 [No types assigned]