Bug 2424881 (CVE-2025-68366) - CVE-2025-68366 kernel: nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect
Summary: CVE-2025-68366 kernel: nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68366
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 11:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-25 15:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 11:03:18 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect

There is one use-after-free warning when running NBD_CMD_CONNECT and
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK:

nbd_genl_connect
  nbd_alloc_and_init_config // config_refs=1
  nbd_start_device // config_refs=2
  set NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF			open nbd // config_refs=3
  recv_work done // config_refs=2
						NBD_CLEAR_SOCK // config_refs=1
						close nbd // config_refs=0
  refcount_inc -> uaf

------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1014 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x12e/0x290
 nbd_genl_connect+0x16d0/0x1ab0
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1f3/0x310
 genl_rcv_msg+0x44a/0x790

The issue can be easily reproduced by adding a small delay before
refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs) in nbd_genl_connect():

        mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
        if (!ret) {
                set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, &config->runtime_flags);
+               printk("before sleep\n");
+               mdelay(5 * 1000);
+               printk("after sleep\n");
                refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs);
                nbd_connect_reply(info, nbd->index);
        }


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