Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: batman-adv: fix error handling
Syzbot reported ODEBUG warning in batadv_nc_mesh_free(). The problem was
in wrong error handling in batadv_mesh_init().
Before this patch batadv_mesh_init() was calling batadv_mesh_free() in case
of any batadv_*_init() calls failure. This approach may work well, when
there is some kind of indicator, which can tell which parts of batadv are
initialized; but there isn't any.
All written above lead to cleaning up uninitialized fields. Even if we hide
ODEBUG warning by initializing bat_priv->nc.work, syzbot was able to hit
GPF in batadv_nc_purge_paths(), because hash pointer in still NULL. [1]
To fix these bugs we can unwind batadv_*_init() calls one by one.
It is good approach for 2 reasons: 1) It fixes bugs on error handling
path 2) It improves the performance, since we won't call unneeded
batadv_*_free() functions.
So, this patch makes all batadv_*_init() clean up all allocated memory
before returning with an error to no call correspoing batadv_*_free()
and open-codes batadv_mesh_free() with proper order to avoid touching
uninitialized fields.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.007
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regmap: Fix possible double-free in regcache_rbtree_exit()
In regcache_rbtree_insert_to_block(), when 'present' realloc failed,
the 'blk' which is supposed to assign to 'rbnode->block' will be freed,
so 'rbnode->block' points a freed memory, in the error handling path of
regcache_rbtree_init(), 'rbnode->block' will be freed again in
regcache_rbtree_exit(), KASAN will report double-free as follows:
BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kfree+0xce/0x390
Call Trace:
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x10d/0x240
kfree+0xce/0x390
regcache_rbtree_exit+0x15d/0x1a0
regcache_rbtree_init+0x224/0x2c0
regcache_init+0x88d/0x1310
__regmap_init+0x3151/0x4a80
__devm_regmap_init+0x7d/0x100
madera_spi_probe+0x10f/0x333 [madera_spi]
spi_probe+0x183/0x210
really_probe+0x285/0xc30
To fix this, moving up the assignment of rbnode->block to immediately after
the reallocation has succeeded so that the data structure stays valid even
if the second reallocation fails.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-af: Fix possible null pointer dereference.
This patch fixes possible null pointer dereference in files
"rvu_debugfs.c" and "rvu_nix.c"
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in struct qib_user_sdma_pkt fields
Overflowing either addrlimit or bytes_togo can allow userspace to trigger
a buffer overflow of kernel memory. Check for overflows in all the places
doing math on user controlled buffers.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv, bpf: Fix potential NULL dereference
The bpf_jit_binary_free() function requires a non-NULL argument. When
the RISC-V BPF JIT fails to converge in NR_JIT_ITERATIONS steps,
jit_data->header will be NULL, which triggers a NULL
dereference. Avoid this by checking the argument, prior calling the
function.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.007
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Fix even more out of bound writes from debugfs
CVE-2021-42327 was fixed by:
commit f23750b5b3d98653b31d4469592935ef6364ad67
Author: Thelford Williams <tdwilliamsiv@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Oct 13 16:04:13 2021 -0400
drm/amdgpu: fix out of bounds write
but amdgpu_dm_debugfs.c contains more of the same issue so fix the
remaining ones.
v2:
* Add missing fix in dp_max_bpc_write (Harry Wentland)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/ttm: fix memleak in ttm_transfered_destroy
We need to cleanup the fences for ghost objects as well.
Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214029
Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214447
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files
The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened
readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB
misses for large text segments. But it doesn't restrict the file types
so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block
device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This
may cause bugs, like [1] and [2].
This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for
regular files in order to close the attack surface.
[shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: vmk80xx: fix bulk-buffer overflow
The driver is using endpoint-sized buffers but must not assume that the
tx and rx buffers are of equal size or a malicious device could overflow
the slab-allocated receive buffer when doing bulk transfers.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows
The driver uses endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers but up until
recently had no sanity checks on the sizes.
Commit e1f13c879a7c ("staging: comedi: check validity of wMaxPacketSize
of usb endpoints found") inadvertently fixed NULL-pointer dereferences
when accessing the transfer buffers in case a malicious device has a
zero wMaxPacketSize.
Make sure to allocate buffers large enough to handle also the other
accesses that are done without a size check (e.g. byte 18 in
vmk80xx_cnt_insn_read() for the VMK8061_MODEL) to avoid writing beyond
the buffers, for example, when doing descriptor fuzzing.
The original driver was for a low-speed device with 8-byte buffers.
Support was later added for a device that uses bulk transfers and is
presumably a full-speed device with a maximum 64-byte wMaxPacketSize.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-22