From: Slavin Liu <slavin452@gmail.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Slavin Liu <slavin452@gmail.com>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] IPVS: Fix use-after-free issue in ip_vs_unbind_app()
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 14:54:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250908065458.536-1-slavin452@gmail.com> (raw)
When exiting a network namespace, in cleanup_net()->ops_undo_list(),
ip_vs_ftp_ops->exit() is called before ip_vs_core_ops->exit_batch().
The ip_vs_app ip_vs_ftp and its incarnations will be freed by unregister_ip_vs_app().
However, there could still be connections bound to ip_vs_ftp's incarnation.
cp->app points to the free'd incarnation, which will be accessed later by
__ip_vs_cleanup_batch()->ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup()->ip_vs_conn_flush()->ip_vs_conn_del()->
ip_vs_conn_expire()->ip_vs_unbind_app(), causing a uaf. This vulnarability can
lead to a local privilege escalation.
Reproduction steps:
1. create a ipvs service on (127.0.0.1:21)
2. create a ipvs destination on the service, to (127.0.0.1:<any>)
3. send a tcp packet to (127.0.0.1:21)
4. exit the network namespace
I think the fix should flush all connection to ftp before unregistration.
The simpler fix is to delete ip_vs_ftp_ops->exit, and defer the unregistration
of ip_vs_ftp to ip_vs_app_net_cleanup(), which will unregister all ip_vs_app.
It's after ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup() so there is no uaf issue. This patch
seems to solve the issue but has't been fully tested yet, and is also not graceful.
Signed-off-by: Slavin Liu <slavin452@gmail.com>
---
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
index d8a284999544..68def1106681 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
@@ -598,22 +598,9 @@ static int __net_init __ip_vs_ftp_init(struct net *net)
unregister_ip_vs_app(ipvs, &ip_vs_ftp);
return ret;
}
-/*
- * netns exit
- */
-static void __ip_vs_ftp_exit(struct net *net)
-{
- struct netns_ipvs *ipvs = net_ipvs(net);
-
- if (!ipvs)
- return;
-
- unregister_ip_vs_app(ipvs, &ip_vs_ftp);
-}
static struct pernet_operations ip_vs_ftp_ops = {
.init = __ip_vs_ftp_init,
- .exit = __ip_vs_ftp_exit,
};
static int __init ip_vs_ftp_init(void)
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-08 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-08 6:54 Slavin Liu [this message]
2025-09-09 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/1] IPVS: Fix use-after-free issue in ip_vs_unbind_app() Julian Anastasov
2025-09-09 21:21 ` [PATCH v2] ipvs: Check ipvs->enable before unregistration in __ip_vs_ftp_exit() Slavin Liu
2025-09-10 9:39 ` Julian Anastasov
2025-09-11 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v3] ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup Slavin Liu
2025-09-11 17:57 ` [PATCH v4] " Slavin Liu
2025-09-13 17:23 ` Julian Anastasov
2025-09-13 21:07 ` Florian Westphal
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