CVE-2024-44934: net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-08-26 · updated 2026-08-04
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bridge: mcast: wait for previous gc cycles when removing port syzbot hit a use-after-free[1] which is caused because the bridge doesn't make sure that all previous garbage has been collected when removing a port. What happens is: CPU 1 CPU 2 start gc cycle remove port acquire gc lock first wait for lock call br_multicasg_gc() directly acquire lock now but free port the port can be freed while grp timers still running Make sure all previous gc cycles have finished by using flush_work before freeing the port. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888071d6d000 by task syz.5.1232/9699 CPU: 1 PID: 9699 Comm: syz.5.1232 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5-syzkaller-00021-g24ca36a562d6 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601 br_multicast_port_group_expired+0x4c0/0x550 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:861 call_timer_fn+0x1a3/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1792 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1843 [inline] __run_timers+0x74b/0xaf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2417 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2428 [inline] __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2421 [inline] run_timer_base+0x111/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2437

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 5.10 before 5.15.165; from 5.16 before 6.1.105; from 6.2 before 6.6.46; from 6.7 before 6.10.5; 6.11-rc1, 6.11-rc2 — fixed in 5.15.165, 6.1.105, 6.10.5, 6.6.46

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.165, 6.1.105, 6.10.5, 6.6.46. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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