Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In September 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/netfs/fscache_cookie: add missing "n_accesses" check
This fixes a NULL pointer dereference bug due to a data race which
looks like this:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 33 PID: 16573 Comm: kworker/u97:799 Not tainted 6.8.7-cm4all1-hp+ #43
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 10/17/2018
Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_rreq_write_to_cache_work
RIP: 0010:cachefiles_prepare_write+0x30/0xa0
Code: 57 41 56 45 89 ce 41 55 49 89 cd 41 54 49 89 d4 55 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 47 08 48 83 7f 10 00 48 89 34 24 48 8b 68 20 <48> 8b 45 08 4c 8b 38 74 45 49 8b 7f 50 e8 4e a9 b0 ff 48 8b 73 10
RSP: 0018:ffffb4e78113bde0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: ffff976126be6d10 RBX: ffff97615cdb8438 RCX: 0000000000020000
RDX: ffff97605e6c4c68 RSI: ffff97605e6c4c60 RDI: ffff97615cdb8438
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000278333 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff97605e6c4600 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff97605e6c4c68
R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff976064fe2c00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9776dfd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000005942c002 CR4: 00000000001706f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x1f/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x15d/0x440
? search_module_extables+0xe/0x40
? fixup_exception+0x22/0x2f0
? exc_page_fault+0x5f/0x100
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? cachefiles_prepare_write+0x30/0xa0
netfs_rreq_write_to_cache_work+0x135/0x2e0
process_one_work+0x137/0x2c0
worker_thread+0x2e9/0x400
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xcc/0x100
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 0000000000000008
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
This happened because fscache_cookie_state_machine() was slow and was
still running while another process invoked fscache_unuse_cookie();
this led to a fscache_cookie_lru_do_one() call, setting the
FSCACHE_COOKIE_DO_LRU_DISCARD flag, which was picked up by
fscache_cookie_state_machine(), withdrawing the cookie via
cachefiles_withdraw_cookie(), clearing cookie->cache_priv.
At the same time, yet another process invoked
cachefiles_prepare_write(), which found a NULL pointer in this code
line:
struct cachefiles_object *object = cachefiles_cres_object(cres);
The next line crashes, obviously:
struct cachefiles_cache *cache = object->volume->cache;
During cachefiles_prepare_write(), the "n_accesses" counter is
non-zero (via fscache_begin_operation()). The cookie must not be
withdrawn until it drops to zero.
The counter is checked by fscache_cookie_state_machine() before
switching to FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_RELINQUISHING and
FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_WITHDRAWING (in "case
FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_FAILED"), but not for
FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_LRU_DISCARDING ("case
FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_ACTIVE").
This patch adds the missing check. With a non-zero access counter,
the function returns and the next fscache_end_cookie_access() call
will queue another fscache_cookie_state_machine() call to handle the
still-pending FSCACHE_COOKIE_DO_LRU_DISCARD.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mana: Fix RX buf alloc_size alignment and atomic op panic
The MANA driver's RX buffer alloc_size is passed into napi_build_skb() to
create SKB. skb_shinfo(skb) is located at the end of skb, and its alignment
is affected by the alloc_size passed into napi_build_skb(). The size needs
to be aligned properly for better performance and atomic operations.
Otherwise, on ARM64 CPU, for certain MTU settings like 4000, atomic
operations may panic on the skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref due to alignment fault.
To fix this bug, add proper alignment to the alloc_size calculation.
Sample panic info:
[ 253.298819] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000129ba5cce
[ 253.300900] Mem abort info:
[ 253.301760] ESR = 0x0000000096000021
[ 253.302825] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 253.304268] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 253.305172] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 253.306103] FSC = 0x21: alignment fault
Call trace:
__skb_clone+0xfc/0x198
skb_clone+0x78/0xe0
raw6_local_deliver+0xfc/0x228
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x80/0x500
ip6_input_finish+0x48/0x80
ip6_input+0x48/0xc0
ip6_sublist_rcv_finish+0x50/0x78
ip6_sublist_rcv+0x1cc/0x2b8
ipv6_list_rcv+0x100/0x150
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x180/0x220
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x198/0x2a8
__napi_poll+0x138/0x250
net_rx_action+0x148/0x330
handle_softirqs+0x12c/0x3a0
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtla/osnoise: Prevent NULL dereference in error handling
If the "tool->data" allocation fails then there is no need to call
osnoise_free_top() and, in fact, doing so will lead to a NULL dereference.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context
The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode
evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the
inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.
Case 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen
if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck
under the evicting context like this:
1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea
2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru->i_ea
3. Then, following three processes running like this:
PA PB
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
shrink_slab
prune_dcache_sb
// i_reg is added into lru, lru->i_ea->i_reg
prune_icache_sb
list_lru_walk_one
inode_lru_isolate
i_ea->i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
inode_lru_isolate
__iget(i_reg)
spin_unlock(&i_reg->i_lock)
spin_unlock(lru_lock)
rm file A
i_reg->nlink = 0
iput(i_reg) // i_reg->nlink is 0, do evict
ext4_evict_inode
ext4_xattr_delete_inode
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all
ext4_xattr_inode_iget
ext4_iget(i_ea->i_ino)
iget_locked
find_inode_fast
__wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock
dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
wake_up_bit(&i_ea->i_state)
Case 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file
deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf->io_mutex while getting the
xattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The
reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf->io_mutex in
inode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would
happen as following:
1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has
inode ib and a xattr.
2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru->ixa
3. Then, following three processes running like this:
PA PB PC
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
shrink_slab
prune_dcache_sb
// ib and ia are added into lru, lru->ixa->ib->ia
prune_icache_sb
list_lru_walk_one
inode_lru_isolate
ixa->i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
inode_lru_isolate
__iget(ib)
spin_unlock(&ib->i_lock)
spin_unlock(lru_lock)
rm file B
ib->nlink = 0
rm file A
iput(ia)
ubifs_evict_inode(ia)
ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia)
ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia)
make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf->io_mutex
ubifs_iget(ixa->i_ino)
iget_locked
find_inode_fast
__wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa)
| iput(ib) // ib->nlink is 0, do evict
| ubifs_evict_inode
| ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib)
↓ ubifs_jnl_write_inode
ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD)
dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
wake_up_bit(&ixa->i_state)
Fix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING
to pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate(
---truncated---
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KEYS: trusted: dcp: fix leak of blob encryption key
Trusted keys unseal the key blob on load, but keep the sealed payload in
the blob field so that every subsequent read (export) will simply
convert this field to hex and send it to userspace.
With DCP-based trusted keys, we decrypt the blob encryption key (BEK)
in the Kernel due hardware limitations and then decrypt the blob payload.
BEK decryption is done in-place which means that the trusted key blob
field is modified and it consequently holds the BEK in plain text.
Every subsequent read of that key thus send the plain text BEK instead
of the encrypted BEK to userspace.
This issue only occurs when importing a trusted DCP-based key and
then exporting it again. This should rarely happen as the common use cases
are to either create a new trusted key and export it, or import a key
blob and then just use it without exporting it again.
Fix this by performing BEK decryption and encryption in a dedicated
buffer. Further always wipe the plain text BEK buffer to prevent leaking
the key via uninitialized memory.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: fix validity interception issue when gisa is switched off
We might run into a SIE validity if gisa has been disabled either via using
kernel parameter "kvm.use_gisa=0" or by setting the related sysfs
attribute to N (echo N >/sys/module/kvm/parameters/use_gisa).
The validity is caused by an invalid value in the SIE control block's
gisa designation. That happens because we pass the uninitialized gisa
origin to virt_to_phys() before writing it to the gisa designation.
To fix this we return 0 in kvm_s390_get_gisa_desc() if the origin is 0.
kvm_s390_get_gisa_desc() is used to determine which gisa designation to
set in the SIE control block. A value of 0 in the gisa designation disables
gisa usage.
The issue surfaces in the host kernel with the following kernel message as
soon a new kvm guest start is attemted.
kvm: unhandled validity intercept 0x1011
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 781237 at arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c:101 kvm_handle_sie_intercept+0x42e/0x4d0 [kvm]
Modules linked in: vhost_net tap tun xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp nft_compat x_tables nf_nat_tftp nf_conntrack_tftp vfio_pci_core irqbypass vhost_vsock vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vsock vhost vhost_iotlb kvm nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nf_tables sunrpc mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core uvdevice s390_trng eadm_sch vfio_ccw zcrypt_cex4 mdev vfio_iommu_type1 vfio sch_fq_codel drm i2c_core loop drm_panel_orientation_quirks configfs nfnetlink lcs ctcm fsm dm_service_time ghash_s390 prng chacha_s390 libchacha aes_s390 des_s390 libdes sha3_512_s390 sha3_256_s390 sha512_s390 sha256_s390 sha1_s390 sha_common dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log zfcp scsi_transport_fc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua pkey zcrypt dm_multipath rng_core autofs4 [last unloaded: vfio_pci]
CPU: 0 PID: 781237 Comm: CPU 0/KVM Not tainted 6.10.0-08682-gcad9f11498ea #6
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 701 (LPAR)
Krnl PSW : 0704c00180000000 000003d93deb0122 (kvm_handle_sie_intercept+0x432/0x4d0 [kvm])
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:0 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 000003d900000027 000003d900000023 0000000000000028 000002cd00000000
000002d063a00900 00000359c6daf708 00000000000bebb5 0000000000001eff
000002cfd82e9000 000002cfd80bc000 0000000000001011 000003d93deda412
000003ff8962df98 000003d93de77ce0 000003d93deb011e 00000359c6daf960
Krnl Code: 000003d93deb0112: c020fffe7259 larl %r2,000003d93de7e5c4
000003d93deb0118: c0e53fa8beac brasl %r14,000003d9bd3c7e70
#000003d93deb011e: af000000 mc 0,0
>000003d93deb0122: a728ffea lhi %r2,-22
000003d93deb0126: a7f4fe24 brc 15,000003d93deafd6e
000003d93deb012a: 9101f0b0 tm 176(%r15),1
000003d93deb012e: a774fe48 brc 7,000003d93deafdbe
000003d93deb0132: 40a0f0ae sth %r10,174(%r15)
Call Trace:
[<000003d93deb0122>] kvm_handle_sie_intercept+0x432/0x4d0 [kvm]
([<000003d93deb011e>] kvm_handle_sie_intercept+0x42e/0x4d0 [kvm])
[<000003d93deacc10>] vcpu_post_run+0x1d0/0x3b0 [kvm]
[<000003d93deaceda>] __vcpu_run+0xea/0x2d0 [kvm]
[<000003d93dead9da>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x16a/0x430 [kvm]
[<000003d93de93ee0>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x190/0x7c0 [kvm]
[<000003d9bd728b4e>] vfs_ioctl+0x2e/0x70
[<000003d9bd72a092>] __s390x_sys_ioctl+0xc2/0xd0
[<000003d9be0e9222>] __do_syscall+0x1f2/0x2e0
[<000003d9be0f9a90>] system_call+0x70/0x98
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<000003d9bd3c7f58>] __warn_printk+0xe8/0xf0
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xhci: Fix Panther point NULL pointer deref at full-speed re-enumeration
re-enumerating full-speed devices after a failed address device command
can trigger a NULL pointer dereference.
Full-speed devices may need to reconfigure the endpoint 0 Max Packet Size
value during enumeration. Usb core calls usb_ep0_reinit() in this case,
which ends up calling xhci_configure_endpoint().
On Panther point xHC the xhci_configure_endpoint() function will
additionally check and reserve bandwidth in software. Other hosts do
this in hardware
If xHC address device command fails then a new xhci_virt_device structure
is allocated as part of re-enabling the slot, but the bandwidth table
pointers are not set up properly here.
This triggers the NULL pointer dereference the next time usb_ep0_reinit()
is called and xhci_configure_endpoint() tries to check and reserve
bandwidth
[46710.713538] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[46710.713699] usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
[46710.917684] usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
[46711.125536] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71
[46711.125594] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[46711.125600] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[46711.125603] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[46711.125606] PGD 0 P4D 0
[46711.125610] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[46711.125615] CPU: 1 PID: 25760 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.10.3_2 #1
[46711.125620] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
[46711.125623] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [usbcore]
[46711.125668] RIP: 0010:xhci_reserve_bandwidth (drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
Fix this by making sure bandwidth table pointers are set up correctly
after a failed address device command, and additionally by avoiding
checking for bandwidth in cases like this where no actual endpoints are
added or removed, i.e. only context for default control endpoint 0 is
evaluated.
Micron Crucial MX500 Series Solid State Drives M3CR046 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted ATA packets from the host to the drive controller. NOTE: The supplier states that this vulnerability was fully remediated in December 2024 and that updated firmware is available through Crucial’s official support page.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: pm: avoid possible UaF when selecting endp
select_local_address() and select_signal_address() both select an
endpoint entry from the list inside an RCU protected section, but return
a reference to it, to be read later on. If the entry is dereferenced
after the RCU unlock, reading info could cause a Use-after-Free.
A simple solution is to copy the required info while inside the RCU
protected section to avoid any risk of UaF later. The address ID might
need to be modified later to handle the ID0 case later, so a copy seems
OK to deal with.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cgroup/cpuset: fix panic caused by partcmd_update
We find a bug as below:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000003
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 358 Comm: bash Tainted: G W I 6.6.0-10893-g60d6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/4
RIP: 0010:partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
Code: 01 48 85 d2 74 0d 48 83 05 29 3f f8 03 01 f3 48 0f bc c2 89 c0 48 9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000fdbc58 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000100000003 RBX: ffff888100b3dfa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000000000002fe80
RBP: ffff888100b3dfb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000fdbcb0 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff888100a92b48 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f44a5425740(0000) GS:ffff888237d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000100030973 CR3: 000000010722c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs+0x8c/0xa0
? __die_body+0x23/0xa0
? __die+0x3a/0x50
? page_fault_oops+0x1d2/0x5c0
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
? search_module_extables+0x2a/0xb0
? search_exception_tables+0x67/0x90
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x144/0x1b0
? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x211/0x360
? up_read+0x3b/0x50
? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1a/0x30
? exc_page_fault+0x890/0xd90
? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x24f/0x8d0
? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x24f/0x8d0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0xf0/0x600
rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x806/0xdc0
update_partition_sd_lb+0x118/0x130
cpuset_write_resmask+0xffc/0x1420
cgroup_file_write+0xb2/0x290
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x194/0x290
new_sync_write+0xeb/0x160
vfs_write+0x16f/0x1d0
ksys_write+0x81/0x180
__x64_sys_write+0x21/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x2f25/0x4630
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
RIP: 0033:0x7f44a553c887
It can be reproduced with cammands:
cd /sys/fs/cgroup/
mkdir test
cd test/
echo +cpuset > ../cgroup.subtree_control
echo root > cpuset.cpus.partition
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus.effective
0-3
echo 0-3 > cpuset.cpus // taking away all cpus from root
This issue is caused by the incorrect rebuilding of scheduling domains.
In this scenario, test/cpuset.cpus.partition should be an invalid root
and should not trigger the rebuilding of scheduling domains. When calling
update_parent_effective_cpumask with partcmd_update, if newmask is not
null, it should recheck newmask whether there are cpus is available
for parect/cs that has tasks.