Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In March 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs
It's not a good idea to append the frag skb to a skb's frag_list if
the frag_list already has skbs from elsewhere, such as this skb was
created by pskb_copy() where the frag_list was cloned (all the skbs
in it were skb_get'ed) and shared by multiple skbs.
However, the new appended frag skb should have been only seen by the
current skb. Otherwise, it will cause use after free crashes as this
appended frag skb are seen by multiple skbs but it only got skb_get
called once.
The same thing happens with a skb updated by pskb_may_pull() with a
skb_cloned skb. Li Shuang has reported quite a few crashes caused
by this when doing testing over macvlan devices:
[] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:1970!
[] Call Trace:
[] skb_clone+0x4d/0xb0
[] macvlan_broadcast+0xd8/0x160 [macvlan]
[] macvlan_process_broadcast+0x148/0x150 [macvlan]
[] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
[] Call Trace:
[] __check_heap_object+0xd3/0x100
[] __check_object_size+0xff/0x16b
[] simple_copy_to_iter+0x1c/0x30
[] __skb_datagram_iter+0x7d/0x310
[] __skb_datagram_iter+0x2a5/0x310
[] skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x3b/0x90
[] tipc_recvmsg+0x14a/0x3a0 [tipc]
[] ____sys_recvmsg+0x91/0x150
[] ___sys_recvmsg+0x7b/0xc0
[] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:305!
[] Call Trace:
[] <IRQ>
[] kmem_cache_free+0x3ff/0x400
[] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x12c/0xc40
[] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12e/0x270
[] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x3d/0xb0
[] ? get_rx_page_info+0x8e/0xa0 [be2net]
[] be_poll+0x6ef/0xd00 [be2net]
[] ? irq_exit+0x4f/0x100
[] net_rx_action+0x149/0x3b0
...
This patch is to fix it by linearizing the head skb if it has frag_list
set in tipc_buf_append(). Note that we choose to do this before calling
skb_unshare(), as __skb_linearize() will avoid skb_copy(). Also, we can
not just drop the frag_list either as the early time.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done
On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these
commands several times:
# modprobe tipc
# tipc bearer enable media udp name UDP1 localip 127.0.0.1
# rmmod tipc
[] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc096bb00
[] Workqueue: events 0xffffffffc096bb00
[] Call Trace:
[] ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[] ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[] ? kthread+0x116/0x130
[] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[] ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
When removing the TIPC module, the UDP tunnel sock will be delayed to
release in a work queue as sock_release() can't be done in rtnl_lock().
If the work queue is schedule to run after the TIPC module is removed,
kernel will crash as the work queue function cleanup_beareri() code no
longer exists when trying to invoke it.
To fix it, this patch introduce a member wq_count in tipc_net to track
the numbers of work queues in schedule, and wait and exit until all
work queues are done in tipc_exit_net().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix null deref accessing lag dev
It could be the lag dev is null so stop processing the event.
In bond_enslave() the active/backup slave being set before setting the
upper dev so first event is without an upper dev.
After setting the upper dev with bond_master_upper_dev_link() there is
a second event and in that event we have an upper dev.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/meson: fix shutdown crash when component not probed
When main component is not probed, by example when the dw-hdmi module is
not loaded yet or in probe defer, the following crash appears on shutdown:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038
...
pc : meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50
lr : platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30
...
Call trace:
meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50
platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30
device_shutdown+0x158/0x360
kernel_restart_prepare+0x38/0x48
kernel_restart+0x18/0x68
__do_sys_reboot+0x224/0x250
__arm64_sys_reboot+0x24/0x30
...
Simply check if the priv struct has been allocated before using it.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Don't corrupt the value of pg_bytes_written in nfs_do_recoalesce()
The value of mirror->pg_bytes_written should only be updated after a
successful attempt to flush out the requests on the list.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Fix an Oopsable condition in __nfs_pageio_add_request()
Ensure that nfs_pageio_error_cleanup() resets the mirror array contents,
so that the structure reflects the fact that it is now empty.
Also change the test in nfs_pageio_do_add_request() to be more robust by
checking whether or not the list is empty rather than relying on the
value of pg_count.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: fix an incorrect limit in filelayout_decode_layout()
The "sizeof(struct nfs_fh)" is two bytes too large and could lead to
memory corruption. It should be NFS_MAXFHSIZE because that's the size
of the ->data[] buffer.
I reversed the size of the arguments to put the variable on the left.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: rp2: use 'request_firmware' instead of 'request_firmware_nowait'
In 'rp2_probe', the driver registers 'rp2_uart_interrupt' then calls
'rp2_fw_cb' through 'request_firmware_nowait'. In 'rp2_fw_cb', if the
firmware don't exists, function just return without initializing ports
of 'rp2_card'. But now the interrupt handler function has been
registered, and when an interrupt comes, 'rp2_uart_interrupt' may access
those ports then causing NULL pointer dereference or other bugs.
Because the driver does some initialization work in 'rp2_fw_cb', in
order to make the driver ready to handle interrupts, 'request_firmware'
should be used instead of asynchronous 'request_firmware_nowait'.
This report reveals it:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 4.19.177-gdba4159c14ef-dirty #45
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-
gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0xec/0x156 lib/dump_stack.c:118
assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:727 [inline]
register_lock_class+0x14e5/0x1ba0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:753
__lock_acquire+0x187/0x3750 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3303
lock_acquire+0x124/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3907
__raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:144
spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:329 [inline]
rp2_ch_interrupt drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c:466 [inline]
rp2_asic_interrupt.isra.9+0x15d/0x990 drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c:493
rp2_uart_interrupt+0x49/0xe0 drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c:504
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0xfb/0x770 kernel/irq/handle.c:149
handle_irq_event_percpu+0x79/0x150 kernel/irq/handle.c:189
handle_irq_event+0xac/0x140 kernel/irq/handle.c:206
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x232/0x5c0 kernel/irq/chip.c:725
generic_handle_irq_desc include/linux/irqdesc.h:155 [inline]
handle_irq+0x230/0x3a0 arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c:87
do_IRQ+0xa7/0x1e0 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:247
common_interrupt+0xf/0xf arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:670
</IRQ>
RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x28/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:61
Code: 00 00 55 be 04 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 00 c2 2f 8c 48 89 e5 e8 fb 31 e7 f8
8b 05 75 af 8d 03 85 c0 7e 07 0f 00 2d 8a 61 65 00 fb f4 <5d> c3 90 90 90
90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41
RSP: 0018:ffff88806b71fcc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffde
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff8bde7e48 RCX: ffffffff88a21285
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff8c2fc200
RBP: ffff88806b71fcc8 R08: fffffbfff185f840 R09: fffffbfff185f840
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: fffffbfff185f840 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8bea18a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:94 [inline]
default_idle+0x6f/0x360 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:557
arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:548
default_idle_call+0x3b/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:93
cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:153 [inline]
do_idle+0x2ab/0x3c0 kernel/sched/idle.c:263
cpu_startup_entry+0xcb/0xe0 kernel/sched/idle.c:369
start_secondary+0x3b8/0x4e0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:271
secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:243
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
PGD 8000000056d27067 P4D 8000000056d27067 PUD 56d28067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 4.19.177-gdba4159c14ef-dirty #45
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-
gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:readl arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:59 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rp2_ch_interrupt drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c:472 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rp2_asic_interrupt.isra.9+0x181/0x990 drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c:
493
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: usbfs: Don't WARN about excessively large memory allocations
Syzbot found that the kernel generates a WARNing if the user tries to
submit a bulk transfer through usbfs with a buffer that is way too
large. This isn't a bug in the kernel; it's merely an invalid request
from the user and the usbfs code does handle it correctly.
In theory the same thing can happen with async transfers, or with the
packet descriptor table for isochronous transfers.
To prevent the MM subsystem from complaining about these bad
allocation requests, add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to the kmalloc calls
for these buffers.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind
Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind().
The problem was is non-freed memory in case of
errors after memory allocation.
backtrace:
[<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline]
[<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline]
[<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460
[<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728