CVE-2024-26861
kernel: wireguard: receive: annotate data-race around receiving_counter.counter
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
Review impact separately from score.
Published · April 17, 2024
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wireguard: receive: annotate data-race around receiving_counter.counter
Syzkaller with KCSAN identified a data-race issue when accessing keypair->receiving_counter.counter. Use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() annotations to mark the data race as intentional.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in wg_packet_decrypt_worker / wg_packet_rx_poll
write to 0xffff888107765888 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
counter_validate drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:321 [inline]
wg_packet_rx_poll+0x3ac/0xf00 drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:461
__napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6536
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6605 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6738
__do_softirq+0xc4/0x279 kernel/softirq.c:553
do_softirq+0x5e/0x90 kernel/softirq.c:454
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x64/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:381
__raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:167 [inline]
_raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x36/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210
spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
ptr_ring_consume_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:367 [inline]
wg_packet_decrypt_worker+0x6c5/0x700 drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:499
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2633 [inline]
...
read to 0xffff888107765888 of 8 bytes by task 3196 on cpu 1:
decrypt_packet drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:252 [inline]
wg_packet_decrypt_worker+0x220/0x700 drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:501
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2633 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0x5b8/0xa30 kernel/workqueue.c:2706
worker_thread+0x525/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
...
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')