In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 21, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 3, 2025
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 21, 2024
Last updated
Feb 3, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: fix vlan tunnel dst null pointer dereference
This patch fixes a tunnel_dst null pointer dereference due to lockless
access in the tunnel egress path. When deleting a vlan tunnel the
tunnel_dst pointer is set to NULL without waiting a grace period (i.e.
while it's still usable) and packets egressing are dereferencing it
without checking. Use READ/WRITE_ONCE to annotate the lockless use of
tunnel_id, use RCU for accessing tunnel_dst and make sure it is read
only once and checked in the egress path. The dst is already properly RCU
protected so we don't need to do anything fancy than to make sure
tunnel_id and tunnel_dst are read only once and checked in the egress path.
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