audit: fix potential use-after-free in audit_del_rule()
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
audit: fix potential use-after-free in audit_del_rule()
`audit_del_rule()` destroys `e->rule.exe` via `audit_remove_mark_rule()`
before unlinking the rule from RCU-visible filter lists and waiting for a
grace period. Concurrent readers in `audit_filter()` and
`audit_filter_rules()` still dereference `e->rule.exe`, while the fsnotify
mark can be freed on an independent lifetime path. This creates a
use-after-free window during rule deletion.
Fix this by unlinking the rule from the RCU-visible lists and invoking
`synchronize_rcu()` before calling `audit_remove_mark_rule()` (and other
rule removal helpers). This ensures that all existing RCU readers have
exited the critical section before any underlying resources are destroyed.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/246df90b5f1a8a6e6abbd2f058b029558720adechttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f82927b399d7a276c0c12b6ff4424b747a0c9a7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45bf3df5b32e5a49953e7ceabc55f7dd85380e46https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b8f46864f06d6dbacb7dcea52bc084dfd122638https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78bde7e9bd36eaae1b8e8cfcd47f12a34f301dbfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ae135a8962be9d4e8a131eb18eb06cdf02a47cehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93616c567469510b7bba55b2674e0c4523fd7e64https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cae0dfed5d307b240bff71c3cf206652d1b6f215