Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo
tcp_set_default_congestion_control() is netns-safe in that it writes
to &net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control, but it also sets
ca->flags |= TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED which is not namespaced.
This has the unintended side-effect of changing the global
net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control sysctl, despite the fact that it
is read-only: 97684f0970f6 ("net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control
readonly in non-init netns")
Resolve this netns "leak" by only allowing the init netns to set the
default algorithm to one that is restricted. This restriction could be
removed if tcp_allowed_congestion_control were namespace-ified in the
future.
This bug was uncovered with
https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/linux-netns-sysctl-verify
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg
Patch series "Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5.
Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied.
All slab objects are charged with the new APIs of obj_cgroup. The new
APIs introduce a struct obj_cgroup to charge slab objects. It prevents
long-living objects from pinning the original memory cgroup in the
memory. But there are still some corner objects (e.g. allocations
larger than order-1 page on SLUB) which are not charged with the new
APIs. Those objects (include the pages which are allocated from buddy
allocator directly) are charged as kmem pages which still hold a
reference to the memory cgroup.
E.g. We know that the kernel stack is charged as kmem pages because the
size of the kernel stack can be greater than 2 pages (e.g. 16KB on
x86_64 or arm64). If we create a thread (suppose the thread stack is
charged to memory cgroup A) and then move it from memory cgroup A to
memory cgroup B. Because the kernel stack of the thread hold a
reference to the memory cgroup A. The thread can pin the memory cgroup
A in the memory even if we remove the cgroup A. If we want to see this
scenario by using the following script. We can see that the system has
added 500 dying cgroups (This is not a real world issue, just a script
to show that the large kmallocs are charged as kmem pages which can pin
the memory cgroup in the memory).
#!/bin/bash
cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory
cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
echo 1 > memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
for i in range{1..500}
do
mkdir kmem_test
echo $$ > kmem_test/cgroup.procs
sleep 3600 &
echo $$ > cgroup.procs
echo `cat kmem_test/cgroup.procs` > cgroup.procs
rmdir kmem_test
done
cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory
This patchset aims to make those kmem pages to drop the reference to
memory cgroup by using the APIs of obj_cgroup. Finally, we can see that
the number of the dying cgroups will not increase if we run the above test
script.
This patch (of 7):
The rcu_read_lock/unlock only can guarantee that the memcg will not be
freed, but it cannot guarantee the success of css_get (which is in the
refill_stock when cached memcg changed) to memcg.
rcu_read_lock()
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(old)
__memcg_kmem_uncharge(memcg)
refill_stock(memcg)
if (stock->cached != memcg)
// css_get can change the ref counter from 0 back to 1.
css_get(&memcg->css)
rcu_read_unlock()
This fix is very like the commit:
eefbfa7fd678 ("mm: memcg/slab: fix use after free in obj_cgroup_charge")
Fix this by holding a reference to the memcg which is passed to the
__memcg_kmem_uncharge() before calling __memcg_kmem_uncharge().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/siw: Fix a use after free in siw_alloc_mr
Our code analyzer reported a UAF.
In siw_alloc_mr(), it calls siw_mr_add_mem(mr,..). In the implementation of
siw_mr_add_mem(), mem is assigned to mr->mem and then mem is freed via
kfree(mem) if xa_alloc_cyclic() failed. Here, mr->mem still point to a
freed object. After, the execution continue up to the err_out branch of
siw_alloc_mr, and the freed mr->mem is used in siw_mr_drop_mem(mr).
My patch moves "mr->mem = mem" behind the if (xa_alloc_cyclic(..)<0) {}
section, to avoid the uaf.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net:emac/emac-mac: Fix a use after free in emac_mac_tx_buf_send
In emac_mac_tx_buf_send, it calls emac_tx_fill_tpd(..,skb,..).
If some error happens in emac_tx_fill_tpd(), the skb will be freed via
dev_kfree_skb(skb) in error branch of emac_tx_fill_tpd().
But the freed skb is still used via skb->len by netdev_sent_queue(,skb->len).
As i observed that emac_tx_fill_tpd() haven't modified the value of skb->len,
thus my patch assigns skb->len to 'len' before the possible free and
use 'len' instead of skb->len later.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: act_ct: fix wild memory access when clearing fragments
while testing re-assembly/re-fragmentation using act_ct, it's possible to
observe a crash like the following one:
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0001000000000448-0x000100000000044f]
CPU: 50 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/50 Tainted: G S 5.12.0-rc7+ #424
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
RIP: 0010:inet_frag_rbtree_purge+0x50/0xc0
Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 c3 31 ed 48 89 df e8 a9 7a 38 ff 4c 89 fe 48 89 df 49 89 c6 e8 5b 3a 38 ff 48 8d 7b 40 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 75 59 48 8d bb d0 00 00 00 4c 8b 6b 40 48 89 f8 48
RSP: 0018:ffff888c31449db8 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000200000000089 RBX: 000100000000040e RCX: ffffffff989eb960
RDX: 0000000000000140 RSI: ffffffff97cfb977 RDI: 000100000000044e
RBP: 0000000000000900 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1186289350
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffed1186289350 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 000100000000040e R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888155e02160
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888c31440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005600cb70a5b8 CR3: 0000000a2c014005 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
inet_frag_destroy+0xa9/0x150
call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x180
run_timer_softirq+0x4fe/0xe70
__do_softirq+0x197/0x5a0
irq_exit_rcu+0x1de/0x200
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80
</IRQ>
when act_ct temporarily stores an IP fragment, restoring the skb qdisc cb
results in putting random data in FRAG_CB(), and this causes those "wild"
memory accesses later, when the rbtree is purged. Never overwrite the skb
cb in case tcf_ct_handle_fragments() returns -EINPROGRESS.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt_en: Fix RX consumer index logic in the error path.
In bnxt_rx_pkt(), the RX buffers are expected to complete in order.
If the RX consumer index indicates an out of order buffer completion,
it means we are hitting a hardware bug and the driver will abort all
remaining RX packets and reset the RX ring. The RX consumer index
that we pass to bnxt_discard_rx() is not correct. We should be
passing the current index (tmp_raw_cons) instead of the old index
(raw_cons). This bug can cause us to be at the wrong index when
trying to abort the next RX packet. It can crash like this:
#0 [ffff9bbcdf5c39a8] machine_kexec at ffffffff9b05e007
#1 [ffff9bbcdf5c3a00] __crash_kexec at ffffffff9b111232
#2 [ffff9bbcdf5c3ad0] panic at ffffffff9b07d61e
#3 [ffff9bbcdf5c3b50] oops_end at ffffffff9b030978
#4 [ffff9bbcdf5c3b78] no_context at ffffffff9b06aaf0
#5 [ffff9bbcdf5c3bd8] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff9b06ae2e
#6 [ffff9bbcdf5c3c28] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff9b06af24
#7 [ffff9bbcdf5c3c38] __do_page_fault at ffffffff9b06b67e
#8 [ffff9bbcdf5c3cb0] do_page_fault at ffffffff9b06bb12
#9 [ffff9bbcdf5c3ce0] page_fault at ffffffff9bc015c5
[exception RIP: bnxt_rx_pkt+237]
RIP: ffffffffc0259cdd RSP: ffff9bbcdf5c3d98 RFLAGS: 00010213
RAX: 000000005dd8097f RBX: ffff9ba4cb11b7e0 RCX: ffffa923cf6e9000
RDX: 0000000000000fff RSI: 0000000000000627 RDI: 0000000000001000
RBP: ffff9bbcdf5c3e60 R8: 0000000000420003 R9: 000000000000020d
R10: ffffa923cf6ec138 R11: ffff9bbcdf5c3e83 R12: ffff9ba4d6f928c0
R13: ffff9ba4cac28080 R14: ffff9ba4cb11b7f0 R15: ffff9ba4d5a30000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath10k: Fix a use after free in ath10k_htc_send_bundle
In ath10k_htc_send_bundle, the bundle_skb could be freed by
dev_kfree_skb_any(bundle_skb). But the bundle_skb is used later
by bundle_skb->len.
As skb_len = bundle_skb->len, my patch replaces bundle_skb->len to
skb_len after the bundle_skb was freed.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: aspeed: fix clock handling logic
Video engine uses eclk and vclk for its clock sources and its reset
control is coupled with eclk so the current clock enabling sequence works
like below.
Enable eclk
De-assert Video Engine reset
10ms delay
Enable vclk
It introduces improper reset on the Video Engine hardware and eventually
the hardware generates unexpected DMA memory transfers that can corrupt
memory region in random and sporadic patterns. This issue is observed
very rarely on some specific AST2500 SoCs but it causes a critical
kernel panic with making a various shape of signature so it's extremely
hard to debug. Moreover, the issue is observed even when the video
engine is not actively used because udevd turns on the video engine
hardware for a short time to make a query in every boot.
To fix this issue, this commit changes the clock handling logic to make
the reset de-assertion triggered after enabling both eclk and vclk. Also,
it adds clk_unprepare call for a case when probe fails.
clk: ast2600: fix reset settings for eclk and vclk
Video engine reset setting should be coupled with eclk to match it
with the setting for previous Aspeed SoCs which is defined in
clk-aspeed.c since all Aspeed SoCs are sharing a single video engine
driver. Also, reset bit 6 is defined as 'Video Engine' reset in
datasheet so it should be de-asserted when eclk is enabled. This
commit fixes the setting.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915: Fix crash in auto_retire
The retire logic uses the 2 lower bits of the pointer to the retire
function to store flags. However, the auto_retire function is not
guaranteed to be aligned to a multiple of 4, which causes crashes as
we jump to the wrong address, for example like this:
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804300Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876901] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804310Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876906] CPU: 7 PID: 146 Comm: kworker/u16:6 Tainted: G U 5.4.105-13595-g3cd84167b2df #1
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804311Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876907] Hardware name: Google Volteer2/Volteer2, BIOS Google_Volteer2.13672.76.0 02/22/2021
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804312Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876911] Workqueue: events_unbound active_work
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804313Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876914] RIP: 0010:auto_retire+0x1/0x20
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804314Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876916] Code: e8 01 f2 ff ff eb 02 31 db 48 89 d8 5b 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 f0 ff 87 c8 00 00 00 0f 88 ab 47 4a 00 31 c0 5d c3 0f <1f> 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 f0 ff 8f c8 00 00 00 0f 88 9a 47 4a 00 74
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804319Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876918] RSP: 0018:ffff9b4d809fbe38 EFLAGS: 00010286
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804320Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876919] RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: ffff927915079600 RCX: 0000000000000007
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804320Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876921] RDX: ffff9b4d809fbe40 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffff927915079600
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804321Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876922] RBP: ffff9b4d809fbe68 R08: 8080808080808080 R09: fefefefefefefeff
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804321Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876924] R10: 0000000000000010 R11: ffffffff92e44bd8 R12: ffff9279150796a0
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804322Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876925] R13: ffff92791c368180 R14: ffff927915079640 R15: 000000001c867605
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804323Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876926] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff92791ffc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804323Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876928] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804324Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876929] CR2: 0000239514955000 CR3: 00000007f82da001 CR4: 0000000000760ee0
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804325Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876930] PKRU: 55555554
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804325Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876931] Call Trace:
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804326Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876935] __active_retire+0x77/0xcf
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804326Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876939] process_one_work+0x1da/0x394
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804327Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876941] worker_thread+0x216/0x375
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804327Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876944] kthread+0x147/0x156
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804335Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876946] ? pr_cont_work+0x58/0x58
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804335Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876948] ? kthread_blkcg+0x2e/0x2e
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804336Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876950] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
2021-04-24T18:03:53.804336Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876952] Modules linked in: cdc_mbim cdc_ncm cdc_wdm xt_cgroup rfcomm cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg xt_MASQUERADE uinput snd_soc_rt5682_sdw snd_soc_rt5682 snd_soc_max98373_sdw snd_soc_max98373 snd_soc_rl6231 regmap_sdw snd_soc_sof_sdw snd_soc_hdac_hdmi snd_soc_dmic snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_sof_pci snd_sof_intel_hda_common intel_ipu6_psys snd_sof_xtensa_dsp soundwire_intel soundwire_generic_allocation soundwire_cadence snd_sof_intel_hda snd_sof snd_soc_hdac_hda snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_soc_acpi snd_hda_ext_core soundwire_bus snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core intel_ipu6_isys videobuf2_dma_contig videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videobuf2_memops mei_hdcp intel_ipu6 ov2740 ov8856 at24 sx9310 dw9768 v4l2_fwnode cros_ec_typec intel_pmc_mux roles acpi_als typec fuse iio_trig_sysfs cros_ec_light_prox cros_ec_lid_angle cros_ec_sensors cros
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs
Disable preemption when probing a user return MSR via RDSMR/WRMSR. If
the MSR holds a different value per logical CPU, the WRMSR could corrupt
the host's value if KVM is preempted between the RDMSR and WRMSR, and
then rescheduled on a different CPU.
Opportunistically land the helper in common x86, SVM will use the helper
in a future commit.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28