CVE-2024-49940
Published: Oct 21, 2024
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow When a session is created, it sets a backpointer to its tunnel. When the session refcount drops to 0, l2tp_session_free drops the tunnel refcount if session->tunnel is non-NULL. However, session->tunnel is set in l2tp_session_create, before the tunnel refcount is incremented by l2tp_session_register, which leaves a small window where session->tunnel is non-NULL when the tunnel refcount hasn't been bumped. Moving the assignment to l2tp_session_register is trivial but l2tp_session_create calls l2tp_session_set_header_len which uses session->tunnel to get the tunnel's encap. Add an encap arg to l2tp_session_set_header_len to avoid using session->tunnel. If l2tpv3 sessions have colliding IDs, it is possible for l2tp_v3_session_get to race with l2tp_session_register and fetch a session which doesn't yet have session->tunnel set. Add a check for this case.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 3953ae7b218df4d1e544b98a393666f9ae58a78c - < f7415e60c25a6108cd7955a20b2e66b6251ffe02affected 3953ae7b218df4d1e544b98a393666f9ae58a78c - < 24256415d18695b46da06c93135f5b51c548b950affected b102bfc2a90d14f342580285782a9a51c74f7369affected 10c15ddabbcf888922adbdd44ca3fecf6eab19d9affected 8d1c650d452c53fcb3f02a7b1d772741639f89a4+7 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.15unaffected 0 - < 4.15unaffected 6.11.3 - <= 6.11.*unaffected 6.12 - <= * |
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