linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21718: net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

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Message-ID: <2025022646-CVE-2025-21718-d976@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:06:13 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21718: net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

Description
===========

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

net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without
checking if the socket is owned by one user thread.

Add a check and rearm the timers if needed.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802f09b82a by task swapper/0/0

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-syzkaller-00172-gd1bf27c4e176 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
  print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
  kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
  rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174
  call_timer_fn+0x187/0x650 kernel/time/timer.c:1793
  expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline]
  __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline]
  __run_timer_base+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2430
  run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline]
  run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2449
  handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561
  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]
  invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]
  __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662
  irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678
  instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
 </IRQ>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21718 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.1.129 with commit f55c88e3ca5939a6a8a329024aed8f3d98eea8e4
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.6.76 with commit 51c128ba038cf1b79d605cbee325919b45ab95a5
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.12.13 with commit 1992fb261c90e9827cf5dc3115d89bb0853252c9
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.13.2 with commit 58051a284ac18a3bb815aac6289a679903ddcc3f
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.14-rc1 with commit 5de7665e0a0746b5ad7943554b34db8f8614a196

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21718
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/rose/rose_timer.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f55c88e3ca5939a6a8a329024aed8f3d98eea8e4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c128ba038cf1b79d605cbee325919b45ab95a5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1992fb261c90e9827cf5dc3115d89bb0853252c9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58051a284ac18a3bb815aac6289a679903ddcc3f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5de7665e0a0746b5ad7943554b34db8f8614a196