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Lo que lleva a un recuento en vuelo elevado incorrectamente y luego a un puntero colgante dentro de gc_inflight_list. los sockets son AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM S es un socket no conectado L es un socket de escucha en vuelo vinculado a addr, no en fdtable El fd de V se pasar\u00e1 a trav\u00e9s de sendmsg(), se aumenta el recuento en vuelo connect(S, addr) sendmsg(S, [ V]); cerrar(V) __unix_gc() ---------- ------------------------- -- --------- NS = unix_create1() skb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS) L = unix_find_other(addr) unix_state_lock(L) unix_peer(S) = NS // V count=1 en vuelo=0 NS = unix_peer(S ) skb2 = sock_alloc() skb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V]) // V se convirti\u00f3 en vuelo // V recuento=2 en vuelo=1 close(V) // V recuento=1 en vuelo=1 // Condici\u00f3n candidata de GC cumplida para u en gc_inflight_list: if (total_refs == inflight_refs) agregue u a gc_candidates // gc_candidates={L, V} para u en gc_candidates: scan_children(u, dec_inflight) // el embri\u00f3n (skb1) a\u00fan no era // accesible desde L , por lo que V's // en vuelo permanece sin cambios __skb_queue_tail(L, skb1) unix_state_unlock(L) para u en gc_candidates: if (u.inflight) scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail) // V count=1 inflight=2 (!) 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Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight\ncount, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list.\nsockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM\nS is an unconnected socket\nL is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable\nV's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped\nconnect(S, addr)sendmsg(S, [V]); close(V)__unix_gc()\n----------------------------------------------------\nNS = unix_create1()\nskb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS)\nL = unix_find_other(addr)\nunix_state_lock(L)\nunix_peer(S) = NS\n// V count=1 inflight=0\nNS = unix_peer(S)\nskb2 = sock_alloc()\nskb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V])\n// V became in-flight\n// V count=2 inflight=1\nclose(V)\n// V count=1 inflight=1\n// GC candidate condition met\nfor u in gc_inflight_list:\nif (total_refs == inflight_refs)\nadd u to gc_candidates\n// gc_candidates={L, V}\nfor u in gc_candidates:\nscan_children(u, dec_inflight)\n// embryo (skb1) was not\n// reachable from L yet, so V's\n// inflight remains unchanged\n__skb_queue_tail(L, skb1)\nunix_state_unlock(L)\nfor u in gc_candidates:\nif (u.inflight)\nscan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail)\n// V count=1 inflight=2 (!)\nIf there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This\nmakes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After\nflipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if\nthere is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At\nthis point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already\ntaken. Inflight graph remains unaffected.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where the management of inter-process communication uses AF_UNIX sockets. The issue arises from a race condition where a partially initialized socket with specific permissions carrying SCM_RIGHTS is improperly handled during garbage collection. This situation leads to an incorrect count of active sockets, potentially causing resources to remain unaccounted for and never released."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "There are no known mitigations to this issue and updating to the latest Linux kernel version is recommended to address this vulnerability\u200b."}, "name": "CVE-2024-26923", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-04-24T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26923\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26923\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024042418-CVE-2024-26923-f7f6@gregkh/T"], "statement": "Red Hat rates the security impact of this vulnerability as Moderate due to the worst-case scenario resulting in a resource consumption attack. Considering this is a timing attack and is hard to replicate outside of very controlled environments, the vulnerability is not rated higher.", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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