Advisories

NetBSD COMPAT_NETBSD32 Double Free / Use-After-Free via recvmsg() msg_iovlen

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • NetBSD >= 8.0, <= 8.3

  • NetBSD >= 9.0, < 9.5

  • NetBSD >= 10.0, <= 10.1

CWE
  • CWE-415 Double Free
  • CWE-416 Use After Free
CVSS
7.3
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References
Credit
Tristan CLERC
Description
NetBSD contains a use-after-free and double-free vulnerability in msg_recv_copyin() within the COMPAT_NETBSD32 compatibility layer due to a missing return statement before the cleanup label on the success path. Any local user able to execute a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit NetBSD system can trigger a kernel panic or memory corruption by calling recvmsg() with msg_iovlen between 9 and IOV_MAX, causing the kernel to access a freed iovec buffer and subsequently free the same allocation a second time.

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