GHSA-6C9X-J9R2-VPW8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-04 15:31 – Updated: 2026-05-12 15:30
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Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU

syzbot reported that it discovered a use-after-free vulnerability, 0

idr_for_each() is protected by rwsem, but this is not enough. If it is not protected by RCU read-critical region, when idr_for_each() calls radix_tree_node_free() through call_rcu() to free the radix_tree_node structure, the node will be freed immediately, and when reading the next node in radix_tree_for_each_slot(), the already freed memory may be read.

Therefore, we need to add code to make sure that idr_for_each() is protected within the RCU read-critical region when we call it in shm_destroy_orphaned().

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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  "aliases": [
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  "id": "GHSA-6c9x-j9r2-vpw8",
  "modified": "2026-05-12T15:30:54Z",
  "published": "2025-07-04T15:31:09Z",
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