CVE-2024-50252 : Detail

CVE-2024-50252

5.5
/
Medium
0.04%V4
Local
2024-11-09
10h15 +00:00
2024-12-19
09h36 +00:00
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CVE Descriptions

mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address The device stores IPv6 addresses that are used for encapsulation in linear memory that is managed by the driver. Changing the remote address of an ip6gre net device never worked properly, but since cited commit the following reproducer [1] would result in a warning [2] and a memory leak [3]. The problem is that the new remote address is never added by the driver to its hash table (and therefore the device) and the old address is never removed from it. Fix by programming the new address when the configuration of the ip6gre net device changes and removing the old one. If the address did not change, then the above would result in increasing the reference count of the address and then decreasing it. [1] # ip link add name bla up type ip6gre local 2001:db8:1::1 remote 2001:db8:2::1 tos inherit ttl inherit # ip link set dev bla type ip6gre remote 2001:db8:3::1 # ip link del dev bla # devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0 [2] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1682 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c:3002 mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1682 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-custom-g86b5b55bc835 #151 Hardware name: Nvidia SN5600/VMOD0013, BIOS 5.13 05/31/2023 RIP: 0010:mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0 [...] Call Trace: mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x55f/0x1240 notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x63e/0x9d0 rtnl_dellink+0x16b/0x3a0 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390 netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420 ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0 __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f [3] unreferenced object 0xffff898081f597a0 (size 32): comm "ip", pid 1626, jiffies 4294719324 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 01 0d b8 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ............... 21 49 61 83 80 89 ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 !Ia............. backtrace (crc fd9be911): [<00000000df89c55d>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1da/0x260 [<00000000ff2a1ddb>] mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_kvdl_index_get+0x281/0x340 [<000000009ddd445d>] mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x47b/0x1240 [<00000000743e7757>] notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0 [<000000007c7b9e13>] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90 [<000000002509645d>] register_netdevice+0x5f7/0x7a0 [<00000000c2e7d2a9>] ip6gre_newlink_common.isra.0+0x65/0x130 [<0000000087cd6d8d>] ip6gre_newlink+0x72/0x120 [<000000004df7c7cc>] rtnl_newlink+0x471/0xa20 [<0000000057ed632a>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0 [<0000000032e0d5b5>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 [<00000000908bca63>] netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390 [<00000000cdbe1c87>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420 [<0000000011db153e>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320 [<000000003b6d53eb>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0 [<00000000cae27c62>] __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0

CVE Informations

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Metrics

Metrics Score Severity CVSS Vector Source
V3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Base: Exploitabilty Metrics

The Exploitability metrics reflect the characteristics of the thing that is vulnerable, which we refer to formally as the vulnerable component.

Attack Vector

This metric reflects the context by which vulnerability exploitation is possible.

Local

The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities.

Attack Complexity

This metric describes the conditions beyond the attacker’s control that must exist in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Low

Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success when attacking the vulnerable component.

Privileges Required

This metric describes the level of privileges an attacker must possess before successfully exploiting the vulnerability.

Low

The attacker requires privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges has the ability to access only non-sensitive resources.

User Interaction

This metric captures the requirement for a human user, other than the attacker, to participate in the successful compromise of the vulnerable component.

None

The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any user.

Base: Scope Metrics

The Scope metric captures whether a vulnerability in one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.

Scope

Formally, a security authority is a mechanism (e.g., an application, an operating system, firmware, a sandbox environment) that defines and enforces access control in terms of how certain subjects/actors (e.g., human users, processes) can access certain restricted objects/resources (e.g., files, CPU, memory) in a controlled manner. All the subjects and objects under the jurisdiction of a single security authority are considered to be under one security scope. If a vulnerability in a vulnerable component can affect a component which is in a different security scope than the vulnerable component, a Scope change occurs. Intuitively, whenever the impact of a vulnerability breaches a security/trust boundary and impacts components outside the security scope in which vulnerable component resides, a Scope change occurs.

Unchanged

An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.

Base: Impact Metrics

The Impact metrics capture the effects of a successfully exploited vulnerability on the component that suffers the worst outcome that is most directly and predictably associated with the attack. Analysts should constrain impacts to a reasonable, final outcome which they are confident an attacker is able to achieve.

Confidentiality Impact

This metric measures the impact to the confidentiality of the information resources managed by a software component due to a successfully exploited vulnerability.

None

There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.

Integrity Impact

This metric measures the impact to integrity of a successfully exploited vulnerability. Integrity refers to the trustworthiness and veracity of information.

None

There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.

Availability Impact

This metric measures the impact to the availability of the impacted component resulting from a successfully exploited vulnerability.

High

There is a total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Temporal Metrics

The Temporal metrics measure the current state of exploit techniques or code availability, the existence of any patches or workarounds, or the confidence in the description of a vulnerability.

Environmental Metrics

These metrics enable the analyst to customize the CVSS score depending on the importance of the affected IT asset to a user’s organization, measured in terms of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

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EPSS

EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

EPSS Score

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

EPSS Percentile

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.
EPSS First.org

Products Mentioned

Configuraton 0

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version From (including) 5.17 To (excluding) 6.1.116

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version From (including) 6.2 To (excluding) 6.6.60

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version From (including) 6.7 To (excluding) 6.11.7

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version 6.12

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version 6.12

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version 6.12

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version 6.12

Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version 6.12

References

The information presented on CVE Find originates from several carefully selected reference sources. CVE data is provided by MITRE Corporation and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog is sourced from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), while EPSS scores come from FIRST.org. Additionally, data regarding software weaknesses (CWE) and common attack patterns (CAPEC) is maintained by MITRE Corporation, and information on hardware and software configurations (CPE) is provided by the NVD.