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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Mar 6, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 25, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

team: prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower

Prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower,
e.g. adding veth0 if vlan1 was already added and veth0 is a lower of
vlan1.

This is not useful in practice and can lead to recursive locking:

$ ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
$ ip link set veth0 up
$ ip link set veth1 up
$ ip link add link veth0 name veth0.1 type vlan protocol 802.1Q id 1
$ ip link add team0 type team
$ ip link set veth0.1 down
$ ip link set veth0.1 master team0
team0: Port device veth0.1 added
$ ip link set veth0 down
$ ip link set veth0 master team0

============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46 Not tainted

ip/7684 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)

but task is already holding lock:
ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1147 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977)

other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0

lock(team->team_lock_key);
lock(team->team_lock_key);

*** DEADLOCK ***

May be due to missing lock nesting notation

2 locks held by ip/7684:

stack backtrace:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 7684 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
print_deadlock_bug.cold (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3040)
__lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3893 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226)
? netlink_broadcast_filtered (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1548)
lock_acquire.part.0 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:467 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? trace_lock_acquire (./include/trace/events/lock.h:24 (discriminator 2))
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5822)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
__mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? fib_sync_up (net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c:2167)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85)
call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996)
__dev_notify_flags (net/core/dev.c:8993)
? __dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:8975)
dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:9027)
vlan_device_event (net/8021q/vlan.c:85 net/8021q/vlan.c:470)
? br_device_event (net/bridge/br.c:143)
notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85)
call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996)
dev_open (net/core/dev.c:1519 net/core/dev.c:1505)
team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1219 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977)
? __pfx_team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1972)
do_set_master (net/core/rtnetlink.c:2917)
do_setlink.isra.0 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3117)

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 6, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 6, 2025
Last updated Mar 25, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(8th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-58071

GHSA ID

GHSA-3fpr-88w3-v99m

Source code

No known source code

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