Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp Move the phc->active check and resp pointer assignment to after acquiring the spinlock. Previously, phc->active was checked without holding the lock, and resp was cached from ena_dev->phc.virt_addr before the lock was acquired. If ena_com_phc_destroy() runs between the lockless active check and the lock acquisition, it sets active=false, releases the lock, frees the DMA memory, and sets virt_addr=NULL. The get_timestamp path would then read a NULL virt_addr and dereference it. With both the active check and the pointer read under the lock, destroy cannot free the memory while get_timestamp is using it.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- Linux / Linuxe0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c – 95e8ae9af2a61b4e72f5c585bf4c7d8aaf2a2c98
- Linux / Linuxe0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c – ca9ed40f28949353911dcb524ff8fff2f3409c97
- Linux / Linuxe0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c – e42c755582f0960e684298762f0ab927b3778376
- Linux / Linux6.17 – 6.17
- Linux / Linux0 – 6.17
- Linux / Linux6.18.33 – 6.18.*
- Linux / Linux7.0.10 – 7.0.*
- Linux / Linux7.1 – *