Bug 2307891 (CVE-2024-44934)

Summary: CVE-2024-44934 kernel: net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A possible use-after-free was found in the Linux kernel in net/bridge/br_multicast.c.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-08-26 11:21:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port

syzbot hit a use-after-free[1] which is caused because the bridge doesn't
make sure that all previous garbage has been collected when removing a
port. What happens is:
      CPU 1                   CPU 2
 start gc cycle           remove port
                         acquire gc lock first
 wait for lock
                         call br_multicasg_gc() directly
 acquire lock now but    free port
 the port can be freed
 while grp timers still
 running

Make sure all previous gc cycles have finished by using flush_work before
freeing the port.

[1]
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888071d6d000 by task syz.5.1232/9699

  CPU: 1 PID: 9699 Comm: syz.5.1232 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5-syzkaller-00021-g24ca36a562d6 #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114
   print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
   print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488
   kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
   br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861
   call_timer_fn+0x1a3/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1792
   expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1843 [inline]
   __run_timers+0x74b/0xaf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2417
   __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2428 [inline]
   __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2421 [inline]
   run_timer_base+0x111/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2437

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-08-27 12:12:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024082641-CVE-2024-44934-a7fe@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:27:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966