CVE-2024-40942

Summary

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

wifi: mac80211: mesh: Fix leak of mesh_preq_queue objects

The hwmp code use objects of type mesh_preq_queue, added to a list in ieee80211_if_mesh, to keep track of mpath we need to resolve. If the mpath gets deleted, ex mesh interface is removed, the entries in that list will never get cleaned. Fix this by flushing all corresponding items of the preq_queue in mesh_path_flush_pending().

This should take care of KASAN reports like this:

unreferenced object 0xffff00000668d800 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419552 (age 1836.444s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 1f 05 09 00 00 ff ff 00 d5 68 06 00 00 ff ff ……….h….. 8e 97 ea eb 3e b8 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ….>……….. backtrace: [<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c [<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80 [<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8 [<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c [<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4 [<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764 [<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4 [<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440 [<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c [<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4 [<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508 [<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c [<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634 [<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4 [<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 unreferenced object 0xffff000009051f00 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419553 (age 1836.440s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 90 d6 92 0d 00 00 ff ff 00 d8 68 06 00 00 ff ff ……….h….. 36 27 92 e4 02 e0 01 00 00 58 79 06 00 00 ff ff 6'…….Xy….. backtrace: [<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c [<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80 [<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8 [<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c [<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4 [<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764 [<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4 [<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440 [<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c [<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4 [<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508 [<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c [<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634 [<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4 [<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < 377dbb220edc8421b7960691876c5b3bef62f89baffected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < ec79670eae430b3ffb7e0a6417ad7657728b8f95affected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < 7518e20a189f8659b8b83969db4d33a4068fcfc3affected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < c4c865f971fd4a255208f57ef04d814c2ae9e0dcaffected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < 617dadbfb2d3e152c5753e28356d189c9d6f33c0affected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < 63d5f89bb5664d60edbf8cf0df911aaae8ed96a4affected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < d81e244af521de63ad2883e17571b789c39b6549affected
LinuxLinux050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e < b7d7f11a291830fdf69d3301075dd0fb347ced84affected
LinuxLinux2.6.26affected
LinuxLinux0 < 2.6.26unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.317 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.279 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.221 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.162 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.95 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.35 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.9.6 <= 6.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.10 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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