Linux: wifi: cfg80211: get the wiphy out of a dying network namespace
What fixes it
- 4635b1a1c1d693178a537446a6e09963f0fdae52LinuxCVE List
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: get the wiphy out of a dying network namespace
When a network namespace is destroyed, cfg80211_pernet_exit() moves any wiphy back to the initial namespace, and just warns if that fails. But moving an interface can fail (due to allocation failures), and then the wiphy is left behind with a garbage netns pointer:
Kernel mode fault at addr 0x30 genlmsg_multicast_netns.constprop.0+0x46/0xcf [cfg80211] nl80211_notify_wiphy+0xcd/0xe8 [cfg80211] wiphy_unregister+0x169/0x3fc [cfg80211]
Note that commit debac3a20dec ("net: Remove conflicting altnames for dying netns in __dev_change_net_namespace().") fixed another path that could reach it without allocation failures.
Remove interfaces that cannot be moved instead of failing the switch, so that the wiphy always ends up in the initial namespace. In this case the netdev core will unregister the interfaces anyway.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 8
- Linuxaffected: 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f before caa02072b2986d4b0e7a824de05782ef7b03a0baCVE List
- Linuxaffected: 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f before b949b2720688691f1e41bdbfbe3df2b6dc77c34dCVE List
- Linuxaffected: 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f before 4635b1a1c1d693178a537446a6e09963f0fdae52CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 2.6.32CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 2.6.32CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.18.54 through 6.18.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.8 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List