CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress
The kernel leaks memory when a fib
rule is present in IPv6 nftables
firewall rules and a suppress_prefix rule is present in the IPv6 routing
rules (used by certain tools such as wg-quick). In such scenarios, every
incoming packet will leak an allocation in ip6_dst_cache
slab cache.
After some hours of bpftrace
-ing and source code reading, I tracked
down the issue to ca7a03c41753 (“ipv6: do not free rt if
FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF is set on suppress rule”).
The problem with that change is that the generic args->flags
always have
FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF
set1 but the IPv6-specific flag
RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF
might not be, leading to fib6_rule_suppress
not
decreasing the refcount when needed.
How to reproduce:
sudo slabtop -o | grep ip6_dst_cache
to see memory usage increaseThis patch exposes the protocol-specific flags to the protocol
specific suppress
function, and check the protocol-specific flags
argument for RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF instead of the generic
FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF when decreasing the refcount, like this.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
linux | linux_kernel | * | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |