CVE-2024-49940
l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow
When a session is created, it sets a backpointer to its tunnel. When
the session refcount drops to 0, l2tp_session_free drops the tunnel
refcount if session->tunnel is non-NULL. However, session->tunnel is
set in l2tp_session_create, before the tunnel refcount is incremented
by l2tp_session_register, which leaves a small window where
session->tunnel is non-NULL when the tunnel refcount hasn't been
bumped.
Moving the assignment to l2tp_session_register is trivial but
l2tp_session_create calls l2tp_session_set_header_len which uses
session->tunnel to get the tunnel's encap. Add an encap arg to
l2tp_session_set_header_len to avoid using session->tunnel.
If l2tpv3 sessions have colliding IDs, it is possible for
l2tp_v3_session_get to race with l2tp_session_register and fetch a
session which doesn't yet have session->tunnel set. Add a check for
this case.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:Track
Timeline
- 2024-10-21 CVE Reserved
- 2024-10-21 CVE Published
- 2024-10-22 EPSS Updated
- 2024-11-19 CVE Updated
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- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
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References (2)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7415e60c25a6108cd7955a20b2e66b6251ffe02 | 2024-10-10 | |
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24256415d18695b46da06c93135f5b51c548b950 | 2024-07-31 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.11.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.11.3" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.12 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.12" | en |
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