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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 21, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-36489

CVE-2024-36489

Description

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

tls: fix missing memory barrier in tls_init

In tls_init(), a write memory barrier is missing, and store-store reordering may cause NULL dereference in tls_{setsockopt,getsockopt}.

CPU0 CPU1 ----- ----- // In tls_init() // In tls_ctx_create() ctx = kzalloc() ctx->sk_proto = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_prot) -(1)

// In update_sk_prot() WRITE_ONCE(sk->sk_prot, tls_prots) -(2)

// In sock_common_setsockopt() READ_ONCE(sk->sk_prot)->setsockopt()

// In tls_{setsockopt,getsockopt}() ctx->sk_proto->setsockopt() -(3)

In the above scenario, when (1) and (2) are reordered, (3) can observe the NULL value of ctx->sk_proto, causing NULL dereference.

To fix it, we rely on rcu_assign_pointer() which implies the release barrier semantic. By moving rcu_assign_pointer() after ctx->sk_proto is initialized, we can ensure that ctx->sk_proto are visible when changing sk->sk_prot.

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