Bug 2324423 (CVE-2024-50152)

Summary: CVE-2024-50152 kernel: smb: client: fix possible double free in smb2_set_ea()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A doubly freeing memory vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel smb client. After the first successful memory allocation for 'ea', the second memory release for 'ea' will result in double free, leading to loss of availability of the system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-07 17:02:09 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix possible double free in smb2_set_ea()

Clang static checker(scan-build) warning:
fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c:1304:2: Attempt to free released memory.
 1304 |         kfree(ea);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~

There is a double free in such case:
'ea is initialized to NULL' -> 'first successful memory allocation for
ea' -> 'something failed, goto sea_exit' -> 'first memory release for ea'
-> 'goto replay_again' -> 'second goto sea_exit before allocate memory
for ea' -> 'second memory release for ea resulted in double free'.

Re-initialie 'ea' to NULL near to the replay_again label, it can fix this
double free problem.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:33:37 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