CVE-2024-36972
CVE-2024-36972CVE-2024-36972
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Update unix_sk(sk)->oob_skb under sk_receive_queue lock.
Billy Jheng Bing-Jhong reported a race between __unix_gc() and
queue_oob().
__unix_gc() tries to garbage-collect close()d inflight sockets,
and then if the socket has MSG_OOB in unix_sk(sk)->oob_skb, GC
will drop the reference and set NULL to it locklessly.
However, the peer socket still can send MSG_OOB message and
queue_oob() can update unix_sk(sk)->oob_skb concurrently, leading
NULL pointer dereference. [0]
To fix the issue, let's update unix_sk(sk)->oob_skb under the
sk_receive_queue's lock and take it everywhere we touch oob_skb.
Note that we defer kfree_skb() in manage_oob() to silence lockdep
false-positive (See [1]).
[0]:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 8000000009f5e067 P4D 8000000009f5e067 PUD 9f5d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |