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FKIE_CVE-2023-52629

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-29 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:43
Severity
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sh: push-switch: Reorder cleanup operations to avoid use-after-free bug The original code puts flush_work() before timer_shutdown_sync() in switch_drv_remove(). Although we use flush_work() to stop the worker, it could be rescheduled in switch_timer(). As a result, a use-after-free bug can occur. The details are shown below: (cpu 0) | (cpu 1) switch_drv_remove() | flush_work() | ... | switch_timer // timer | schedule_work(&psw->work) timer_shutdown_sync() | ... | switch_work_handler // worker kfree(psw) // free | | psw->state = 0 // use This patch puts timer_shutdown_sync() before flush_work() to mitigate the bugs. As a result, the worker and timer will be stopped safely before the deallocate operations.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/246f80a0b17f8f582b2c0996db02998239057c65Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610dbd8ac271aa36080aac50b928d700ee3fe4dePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/246f80a0b17f8f582b2c0996db02998239057c65Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610dbd8ac271aa36080aac50b928d700ee3fe4dePatch
Impacted products
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