CVE-2024-26910

Published: 17 April 2024

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix performance regression in swap operation The patch "netfilter: ipset: fix race condition between swap/destroy and kernel side add/del/test", commit 28628fa9 fixes a race condition. But the synchronize_rcu() added to the swap function unnecessarily slows it down: it can safely be moved to destroy and use call_rcu() instead. Eric Dumazet pointed out that simply calling the destroy functions as rcu callback does not work: sets with timeout use garbage collectors which need cancelling at destroy which can wait. Therefore the destroy functions are split into two: cancelling garbage collectors safely at executing the command received by netlink and moving the remaining part only into the rcu callback.

Notes

Priority reason:
This is a performance regression introduced by a prior commit.

This is a performance regression introduced by 28628fa952fe
("netfilter: ipset: fix race condition between swap/destroy and kernel
side add/del/test") which does not appear to be associated with a CVE.

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Severity score breakdown

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26910
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/97f7cf1cd80eeed3b7c808b7c12463295c751001 (6.8-rc3)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7f2733e5011bfd136f1ca93497394d43aa76225
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a24d5f2ac8ef702a58e55ec276aad29b4bd97e05
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2dc077d8f722a1c73a24e674f925602ee5ece49
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/653bc5e6d9995d7d5f497c665b321875a626161c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b93a6756a01f4fd2f329a39216f9824c56a66397
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/970709a67696b100a57b33af1a3d75fc34b747eb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97f7cf1cd80eeed3b7c808b7c12463295c751001
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian