CVE-2023-52924

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52924
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52924.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-52924
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-05T09:07:55.418Z
Modified
2026-04-02T17:29:42.941854094Z
Summary
netfilter: nf_tables: don't skip expired elements during walk
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: don't skip expired elements during walk

There is an asymmetry between commit/abort and preparation phase if the following conditions are met:

  1. set is a verdict map ("1.2.3.4 : jump foo")
  2. timeouts are enabled

In this case, following sequence is problematic:

  1. element E in set S refers to chain C
  2. userspace requests removal of set S
  3. kernel does a set walk to decrement chain->use count for all elements from preparation phase
  4. kernel does another set walk to remove elements from the commit phase (or another walk to do a chain->use increment for all elements from abort phase)

If E has already expired in 1), it will be ignored during list walk, so its use count won't have been changed.

Then, when set is culled, ->destroy callback will zap the element via nftablessetelemdestroy(), but this function is only safe for elements that have been deactivated earlier from the preparation phase: lack of earlier deactivate removes the element but leaks the chain use count, which results in a WARN splat when the chain gets removed later, plus a leak of the nft_chain structure.

Update pipapo_get() not to skip expired elements, otherwise flush command reports bogus ENOENT errors.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52924.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9d0982927e79049675cb6c6c04a0ebb3dad5a434
Fixed
94313a196b44184b5b52c1876da6a537701b425a
Fixed
1da4874d05da1526b11b82fc7f3c7ac38749ddf8
Fixed
b15ea4017af82011dd55225ce77cce3d4dfc169c
Fixed
7c7e658a36f8b1522bd3586d8137e5f93a25ddc5
Fixed
59dab3bf0b8fc08eb802721c0532f13dd89209b8
Fixed
bd156ce9553dcaf2d6ee2c825d1a5a1718e86524
Fixed
24138933b97b055d486e8064b4a1721702442a9b

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52924.json"