CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-26740

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel net/sched act_mirred module, redirecting traffic from egress to ingress may reach the same socket whose lock is still held, causing a deadlock. The fix puts packets into the Rx backlog instead of running the Rx path inline for all egress->ingress reversals.

Risk Assessment

A kernel deadlock and system hang may occur during heavy testing or use of mirred rules with egress->ingress redirection, leading to network service unavailability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the act_mirred fix to avoid deadlocks on egress->ingress redirections.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress The test Davide added in commit ca22da2fbd69 ("act_mirred: use the backlog for nested calls to mirred ingress") hangs our testing VMs every 10 or so runs, with the familiar tcp_v4_rcv -> tcp_v4_rcv deadlock reported by lockdep. The problem as previously described by Davide (see Link) is that if we reverse flow of traffic with the redirect (egress -> ingress) we may reach the same socket which generated the packet. And we may still be holding its socket lock. The common solution to such deadlocks is to put the packet in the Rx backlog, rather than run the Rx path inline. Do that for all egress -> ingress reversals, not just once we started to nest mirred calls. In the past there was a concern that the backlog indirection will lead to loss of error reporting / less accurate stats. But the current workaround does not seem to address the issue.

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