2025-05-02 15:56:08
Linux
PUBLISHED
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support
syzbot reported struct pid leak [1].
Issue is that queue_oob() calls maybe_add_creds() which potentially
holds a reference on a pid.
But skb->destructor is not set (either directly or by calling
unix_scm_to_skb())
This means that subsequent kfree_skb() or consume_skb() would leak
this reference.
In this fix, I chose to fully support scm even for the OOB message.
[1]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881053e7f80 (size 128):
comm "syz-executor242", pid 5066, jiffies 4294946079 (age 13.220s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
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