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High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 12, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 12, 2025

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Affected versions

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Patched versions

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Description

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

geneve: Fix use-after-free in geneve_find_dev().

syzkaller reported a use-after-free in geneve_find_dev() [0]
without repro.

geneve_configure() links struct geneve_dev.next to
net_generic(net, geneve_net_id)->geneve_list.

The net here could differ from dev_net(dev) if IFLA_NET_NS_PID,
IFLA_NET_NS_FD, or IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID is set.

When dev_net(dev) is dismantled, geneve_exit_batch_rtnl() finally
calls unregister_netdevice_queue() for each dev in the netns,
and later the dev is freed.

However, its geneve_dev.next is still linked to the backend UDP
socket netns.

Then, use-after-free will occur when another geneve dev is created
in the netns.

Let's call geneve_dellink() instead in geneve_destroy_tunnels().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in geneve_find_dev drivers/net/geneve.c:1295 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in geneve_configure+0x234/0x858 drivers/net/geneve.c:1343
Read of size 2 at addr ffff000054d6ee24 by task syz.1.4029/13441

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13441 Comm: syz.1.4029 Not tainted 6.13.0-g0ad9617c78ac #24 dc35ca22c79fb82e8e7bc5c9c9adafea898b1e3d
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x38/0x50 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:466 (C)
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xbc/0x108 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x16c/0x6f0 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0xc0/0x120 mm/kasan/report.c:602
__asan_report_load2_noabort+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:379
geneve_find_dev drivers/net/geneve.c:1295 [inline]
geneve_configure+0x234/0x858 drivers/net/geneve.c:1343
geneve_newlink+0xb8/0x128 drivers/net/geneve.c:1634
rtnl_newlink_create+0x23c/0x868 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3795
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1054/0x1630 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4021
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x61c/0x918 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6911
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6938
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x618/0x838 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
netlink_sendmsg+0x5fc/0x8b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1892
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:713 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x410/0x6f8 net/socket.c:2568
___sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x1d8 net/socket.c:2622
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2654 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2659 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2657 [inline]
__arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x12c/0x1c8 net/socket.c:2657
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
invoke_syscall+0x90/0x278 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x250 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
do_el0_svc+0x54/0x70 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
el0_svc+0x4c/0xa8 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x78/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

Allocated by task 13247:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x30/0x68 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x44/0x58 mm/kasan/generic.c:568
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x84/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4298 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_noprof+0x2a0/0x560 mm/slub.c:4304
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x9c/0x230 mm/util.c:645
alloc_netdev_mqs+0xb8/0x11a0 net/core/dev.c:11470
rtnl_create_link+0x2b8/0xb50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3604
rtnl_newlink_create+0x19c/0x868 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3780
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1054/0x1630 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4021
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x61c/0x918 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6911
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1dc/0x398 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543
rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6938
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_n
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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 12, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2025
Last updated Mar 12, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21858

GHSA ID

GHSA-r9xq-fh23-wm6f

Source code

No known source code

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