It was found that the Linux kernel's use after free issue could happen during the usage of cgroupv2 (usually when reboot and more likely if virtual machine or docker being used). After recent commit 090e28b ("netprio_cgroup: Fix unlimited memory leak of v2 cgroups") was merged, the problem could be reproduced much simpler starting with 5.7.x kernels. The problem introduced with 4.5 kernel, but there is no known way to trigger it, so it was not known until 5.7 kernel. It could be possible to reproduce the bug by the user without privileges and without reboot if user has an ability to create/close cgroupv2 or this user create a process which is attached to already existing cgroupv2 BPF (but still the user will have to wait till root manually closes cgroupv2 or system is being rebooted). This commit fixes the problem: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94886c86e833dbc8995202b6c6aaff592b7abd24
Acknowledgments: Name: Adam Zabrocki (pi3.com.pl)
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1868479]
This was fixed for Fedora in the 5.7.10 stable kernel updates.
Statement: This flaw is rated as a having Moderate impact, because only local user can trigger it and no way to trigger it before reboot happens (until user have complete privileges for accessing cgroupv2).
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2021:1578 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1578
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2021:1739 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1739
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-14356