{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2024-50215", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-10-21T19:36:19.971Z", "datePublished": "2024-11-09T10:14:27.043Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:42:33.611Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:42:33.611Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-auth: assign dh_key to NULL after kfree_sensitive\n\nctrl->dh_key might be used across multiple calls to nvmet_setup_dhgroup()\nfor the same controller. So it's better to nullify it after release on\nerror path in order to avoid double free later in nvmet_destroy_auth().\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - `nvmet_setup_dhgroup()` executes on behalf of remote NVMe-oF fabric commands — the admin Connect command (`nvmet_execute_admin_connect()`) and the AUTH_Send DH-HMAC-CHAP NEGOTIATE restart — delivered by nvmet-tcp on TCP/4420 (or RDMA/FC) from an arbitrary remote initiator. No local access to the target is needed to drive the vulnerable function.\nAC:H - Two preconditions lie entirely outside the attacker's control: `ctrl->dh_gid` must diverge from `host->dhchap_dhgroup_id` (the negotiate loop can only re-assign `dh_gid` to its existing value, so this requires an administrator changing `dhchap_dhgroup` via configfs between two setups), and `crypto_kpp_set_secret()` must fail, which happens only on a small GFP_KERNEL/MPI allocation failure or default-RNG failure that the kernel does not produce without OOM-killing first.\nPR:N - The code path is the authentication setup itself and runs before DH-HMAC-CHAP completes (`sq->authenticated == false`); the only credential involved is the host NQN, a non-secret identifier the attacker chooses in the Connect payload. No prior authentication or account on the target is required.\nUI:N - No victim action participates in the attack — the attacker alone issues Connect and AUTH_Send commands and later disconnects to drive `nvmet_ctrl_free()` → `nvmet_destroy_auth()`. The DH-group configfs setting is pre-existing system configuration, not user interaction.\nS:U - The double free corrupts kernel slab state within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - A double free of the 256–1024 byte `ctrl->dh_key` in a general-purpose kmalloc cache lets the same slab object be handed out twice; with the heap grooming the remote peer already has on the target (`kmalloc(tl, GFP_KERNEL)` with attacker-chosen `tl` in `nvmet_execute_auth_send()`), this yields a UAF-style read primitive over adjacent/overlapping kernel objects, including the DH private key material itself.\nI:H - The same aliased-allocation primitive gives an attacker-controlled write into an object another kernel subsystem believes it owns, corrupting SLUB freelist metadata and enabling control-flow hijacking in the classic double-free exploitation pattern.\nA:H - Even unexploited, the second `kfree_sensitive()` on the dangling pointer trips SLUB double-free detection (BUG/panic with `slub_debug` or `panic_on_oops`) or corrupts the freelist into a later fatal oops, taking down the storage target." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/nvme/target/auth.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "7a277c37d3522e9b2777d762bbbcecafae2b1f8d", "lessThan": "c94e965f766321641ec38e4eece9ce8884543244", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "7a277c37d3522e9b2777d762bbbcecafae2b1f8d", "lessThan": "c60af16e1d6cc2237d58336546d6adfc067b6b8f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "7a277c37d3522e9b2777d762bbbcecafae2b1f8d", "lessThan": "e61bd51e44409495d75847e9230736593e4c8710", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "7a277c37d3522e9b2777d762bbbcecafae2b1f8d", "lessThan": "d2f551b1f72b4c508ab9298419f6feadc3b5d791", "status": "affected", 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