CVE-2024-26643 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout

While the rhashtable set gc runs asynchronously a race allows it to collect elements from anonymous sets with timeouts while it is being released from the commit path.

Mingi Cho originally reported this issue in a different path in 6.1.x with a pipapo set with low timeouts which is not possible upstream since 7395dfacfff6 ( etfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout).

Fix this by setting on the dead flag for anonymous sets to skip async gc in this case.

According to 08e4c8c5919f ( etfilter: nf_tables: mark newset as dead on transaction abort) Florian plans to accelerate abort path by releasing objects via workqueue therefore this sets on the dead flag for abort path too.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/552705a3650bbf46a22b1adedc1b04181490fc36