Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted
__blk_mq_sched_bio_merge() gets the ctx and hctx for the current CPU and
passes the hctx to ->bio_merge(). kyber_bio_merge() then gets the ctx
for the current CPU again and uses that to get the corresponding Kyber
context in the passed hctx. However, the thread may be preempted between
the two calls to blk_mq_get_ctx(), and the ctx returned the second time
may no longer correspond to the passed hctx. This "works" accidentally
most of the time, but it can cause us to read garbage if the second ctx
came from an hctx with more ctx's than the first one (i.e., if
ctx->index_hw[hctx->type] > hctx->nr_ctx).
This manifested as this UBSAN array index out of bounds error reported
by Jakub:
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:130:9
index 13106 is out of range for type 'long unsigned int [128]'
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xa4/0xe5
ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold.13+0x2a/0x34
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x476/0x480
do_raw_spin_lock+0x1c2/0x1d0
kyber_bio_merge+0x112/0x180
blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1f5/0x1100
submit_bio_noacct+0x7b0/0x870
submit_bio+0xc2/0x3a0
btrfs_map_bio+0x4f0/0x9d0
btrfs_submit_data_bio+0x24e/0x310
submit_one_bio+0x7f/0xb0
submit_extent_page+0xc4/0x440
__extent_writepage_io+0x2b8/0x5e0
__extent_writepage+0x28d/0x6e0
extent_write_cache_pages+0x4d7/0x7a0
extent_writepages+0xa2/0x110
do_writepages+0x8f/0x180
__writeback_single_inode+0x99/0x7f0
writeback_sb_inodes+0x34e/0x790
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x9e/0x120
wb_writeback+0x4d2/0x660
wb_workfn+0x64d/0xa10
process_one_work+0x53a/0xa80
worker_thread+0x69/0x5b0
kthread+0x20b/0x240
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Only Kyber uses the hctx, so fix it by passing the request_queue to
->bio_merge() instead. BFQ and mq-deadline just use that, and Kyber can
map the queues itself to avoid the mismatch.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: scan: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path
If 'acpi_device_set_name()' fails, we must free
'acpi_device_bus_id->bus_id' or there is a (potential) memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: dwc3: gadget: Free gadget structure only after freeing endpoints
As part of commit e81a7018d93a ("usb: dwc3: allocate gadget structure
dynamically") the dwc3_gadget_release() was added which will free
the dwc->gadget structure upon the device's removal when
usb_del_gadget_udc() is called in dwc3_gadget_exit().
However, simply freeing the gadget results a dangling pointer
situation: the endpoints created in dwc3_gadget_init_endpoints()
have their dep->endpoint.ep_list members chained off the list_head
anchored at dwc->gadget->ep_list. Thus when dwc->gadget is freed,
the first dwc3_ep in the list now has a dangling prev pointer and
likewise for the next pointer of the dwc3_ep at the tail of the list.
The dwc3_gadget_free_endpoints() that follows will result in a
use-after-free when it calls list_del().
This was caught by enabling KASAN and performing a driver unbind.
The recent commit 568262bf5492 ("usb: dwc3: core: Add shutdown
callback for dwc3") also exposes this as a panic during shutdown.
There are a few possibilities to fix this. One could be to perform
a list_del() of the gadget->ep_list itself which removes it from
the rest of the dwc3_ep chain.
Another approach is what this patch does, by splitting up the
usb_del_gadget_udc() call into its separate "del" and "put"
components. This allows dwc3_gadget_free_endpoints() to be
called before the gadget is finally freed with usb_put_gadget().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix deadlock when cloning inline extents and using qgroups
There are a few exceptional cases where cloning an inline extent needs to
copy the inline extent data into a page of the destination inode.
When this happens, we end up starting a transaction while having a dirty
page for the destination inode and while having the range locked in the
destination's inode iotree too. Because when reserving metadata space
for a transaction we may need to flush existing delalloc in case there is
not enough free space, we have a mechanism in place to prevent a deadlock,
which was introduced in commit 3d45f221ce627d ("btrfs: fix deadlock when
cloning inline extent and low on free metadata space").
However when using qgroups, a transaction also reserves metadata qgroup
space, which can also result in flushing delalloc in case there is not
enough available space at the moment. When this happens we deadlock, since
flushing delalloc requires locking the file range in the inode's iotree
and the range was already locked at the very beginning of the clone
operation, before attempting to start the transaction.
When this issue happens, stack traces like the following are reported:
[72747.556262] task:kworker/u81:9 state:D stack: 0 pid: 225 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
[72747.556268] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-1142)
[72747.556271] Call Trace:
[72747.556273] __schedule+0x296/0x760
[72747.556277] schedule+0x3c/0xa0
[72747.556279] io_schedule+0x12/0x40
[72747.556284] __lock_page+0x13c/0x280
[72747.556287] ? generic_file_readonly_mmap+0x70/0x70
[72747.556325] extent_write_cache_pages+0x22a/0x440 [btrfs]
[72747.556331] ? __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0xe7/0x160
[72747.556358] ? set_extent_buffer_dirty+0x5e/0x80 [btrfs]
[72747.556362] ? update_group_capacity+0x25/0x210
[72747.556366] ? cpumask_next_and+0x1a/0x20
[72747.556391] extent_writepages+0x44/0xa0 [btrfs]
[72747.556394] do_writepages+0x41/0xd0
[72747.556398] __writeback_single_inode+0x39/0x2a0
[72747.556403] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1ea/0x440
[72747.556407] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x5f/0xc0
[72747.556410] wb_writeback+0x235/0x2b0
[72747.556414] ? get_nr_inodes+0x35/0x50
[72747.556417] wb_workfn+0x354/0x490
[72747.556420] ? newidle_balance+0x2c5/0x3e0
[72747.556424] process_one_work+0x1aa/0x340
[72747.556426] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[72747.556429] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[72747.556432] kthread+0x116/0x130
[72747.556435] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[72747.556438] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[72747.566958] Workqueue: btrfs-flush_delalloc btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
[72747.566961] Call Trace:
[72747.566964] __schedule+0x296/0x760
[72747.566968] ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[72747.566970] schedule+0x3c/0xa0
[72747.566995] wait_extent_bit.constprop.68+0x13b/0x1c0 [btrfs]
[72747.566999] ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[72747.567024] lock_extent_bits+0x37/0x90 [btrfs]
[72747.567047] btrfs_invalidatepage+0x299/0x2c0 [btrfs]
[72747.567051] ? find_get_pages_range_tag+0x2cd/0x380
[72747.567076] __extent_writepage+0x203/0x320 [btrfs]
[72747.567102] extent_write_cache_pages+0x2bb/0x440 [btrfs]
[72747.567106] ? update_load_avg+0x7e/0x5f0
[72747.567109] ? enqueue_entity+0xf4/0x6f0
[72747.567134] extent_writepages+0x44/0xa0 [btrfs]
[72747.567137] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x93/0x6f0
[72747.567140] do_writepages+0x41/0xd0
[72747.567144] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xc7/0x100
[72747.567167] btrfs_run_delalloc_work+0x17/0x40 [btrfs]
[72747.567195] btrfs_work_helper+0xc2/0x300 [btrfs]
[72747.567200] process_one_work+0x1aa/0x340
[72747.567202] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[72747.567205] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[72747.567208] kthread+0x116/0x130
[72747.567211] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[72747.567214] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[72747.569686] task:fsstress state:D stack:
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
userfaultfd: release page in error path to avoid BUG_ON
Consider the following sequence of events:
1. Userspace issues a UFFD ioctl, which ends up calling into
shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). We successfully account the blocks, we
shmem_alloc_page(), but then the copy_from_user() fails. We return
-ENOENT. We don't release the page we allocated.
2. Our caller detects this error code, tries the copy_from_user() after
dropping the mmap_lock, and retries, calling back into
shmem_mfill_atomic_pte().
3. Meanwhile, let's say another process filled up the tmpfs being used.
4. So shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() fails to account blocks this time, and
immediately returns - without releasing the page.
This triggers a BUG_ON in our caller, which asserts that the page
should always be consumed, unless -ENOENT is returned.
To fix this, detect if we have such a "dangling" page when accounting
fails, and if so, release it before returning.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: prevent corruption in shrinking truncate
I believe there are some issues introduced by commit 31651c607151
("hfsplus: avoid deadlock on file truncation")
HFS+ has extent records which always contains 8 extents. In case the
first extent record in catalog file gets full, new ones are allocated from
extents overflow file.
In case shrinking truncate happens to middle of an extent record which
locates in extents overflow file, the logic in hfsplus_file_truncate() was
changed so that call to hfs_brec_remove() is not guarded any more.
Right action would be just freeing the extents that exceed the new size
inside extent record by calling hfsplus_free_extents(), and then check if
the whole extent record should be removed. However since the guard
(blk_cnt > start) is now after the call to hfs_brec_remove(), this has
unfortunate effect that the last matching extent record is removed
unconditionally.
To reproduce this issue, create a file which has at least 10 extents, and
then perform shrinking truncate into middle of the last extent record, so
that the number of remaining extents is not under or divisible by 8. This
causes the last extent record (8 extents) to be removed totally instead of
truncating into middle of it. Thus this causes corruption, and lost data.
Fix for this is simply checking if the new truncated end is below the
start of this extent record, making it safe to remove the full extent
record. However call to hfs_brec_remove() can't be moved to it's previous
place since we're dropping ->tree_lock and it can cause a race condition
and the cached info being invalidated possibly corrupting the node data.
Another issue is related to this one. When entering into the block
(blk_cnt > start) we are not holding the ->tree_lock. We break out from
the loop not holding the lock, but hfs_find_exit() does unlock it. Not
sure if it's possible for someone else to take the lock under our feet,
but it can cause hard to debug errors and premature unlocking. Even if
there's no real risk of it, the locking should still always be kept in
balance. Thus taking the lock now just before the check.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling entry flush barrier
The entry flush mitigation can be enabled/disabled at runtime via a
debugfs file (entry_flush), which causes the kernel to patch itself to
enable/disable the relevant mitigations.
However depending on which mitigation we're using, it may not be safe to
do that patching while other CPUs are active. For example the following
crash:
sleeper[15639]: segfault (11) at c000000000004c20 nip c000000000004c20 lr c000000000004c20
Shows that we returned to userspace with a corrupted LR that points into
the kernel, due to executing the partially patched call to the fallback
entry flush (ie. we missed the LR restore).
Fix it by doing the patching under stop machine. The CPUs that aren't
doing the patching will be spinning in the core of the stop machine
logic. That is currently sufficient for our purposes, because none of
the patching we do is to that code or anywhere in the vicinity.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: Fix use-after-free in i40e_client_subtask()
Currently the call to i40e_client_del_instance frees the object
pf->cinst, however pf->cinst->lan_info is being accessed after
the free. Fix this by adding the missing return.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Read from pointer after free")
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets()
Number of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to
ensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets()
syzbot injected a size == 0x40000000 and reported:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/linux/log2.h:57:13
shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int'
CPU: 1 PID: 29539 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc7-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
dump_stack+0x141/0x1d7 lib/dump_stack.c:120
ubsan_epilogue+0xb/0x5a lib/ubsan.c:148
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0xb1/0x181 lib/ubsan.c:327
__roundup_pow_of_two include/linux/log2.h:57 [inline]
nft_hash_buckets net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:411 [inline]
nft_hash_estimate.cold+0x19/0x1e net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:652
nft_select_set_ops net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:3586 [inline]
nf_tables_newset+0xe62/0x3110 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4322
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xa09/0x24b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:488
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:612 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:630
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
netlink_sendmsg+0x856/0xd90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:674
____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2350
___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2404
__sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2433
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-02-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched: Fix out-of-bound access in uclamp
Util-clamp places tasks in different buckets based on their clamp values
for performance reasons. However, the size of buckets is currently
computed using a rounding division, which can lead to an off-by-one
error in some configurations.
For instance, with 20 buckets, the bucket size will be 1024/20=51. A
task with a clamp of 1024 will be mapped to bucket id 1024/51=20. Sadly,
correct indexes are in range [0,19], hence leading to an out of bound
memory access.
Clamp the bucket id to fix the issue.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-02-28