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    <id>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-36972</id>
    <title>CVE-2024-36972 — af_unix: Update unix_sk(sk)-&gt;oob_skb under sk_receive_queue lock.</title>
    <updated>2026-09-29T01:27:59.878315+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux, linux_kernel</p>
<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p>
<p>af_unix: Update unix_sk(sk)-&gt;oob_skb under sk_receive_queue lock.</p>
<p>Billy Jheng Bing-Jhong reported a race between __unix_gc() and
queue_oob().</p>
<p>__unix_gc() tries to garbage-collect close()d inflight sockets,
and then if the socket has MSG_OOB in unix_sk(sk)-&gt;oob_skb, GC
will drop the reference and set NULL to it locklessly.</p>
<p>However, the peer socket still can send MSG_OOB message and
queue_oob() can update unix_sk(sk)-&gt;oob_skb concurrently, leading
NULL pointer dereference. [0]</p>
<p>To fix the issue, let's update unix_sk(sk)-&gt;oob_skb under the
sk_receive_queue's lock and take it everywhere we touch oob_skb.</p>
<p>Note that we defer kfree_skb() in manage_oob() to silence lockdep
false-positive (See [1]).</p>
<p>[0]:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
 PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 8000000009f5e067 P4D 8000000009f5e067 PUD 9f5d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 50 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-00191-gd091e579b864 #110
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events delayed_fput
RIP: 0010:skb_dequeue (./include/linux/skbuff.h:2386 ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2402 net/core/skbuff.c:3847)
Code: 39 e3 74 3e 8b 43 10 48 89 ef 83 e8 01 89 43 10 49 8b 44 24 08 49 c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 49 8b 14 24 49 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 89 42…</p></div>
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