Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo
If a line is requested with debounce, and that results in debouncing
in software, and the line is subsequently reconfigured to enable edge
detection then the allocation of the kfifo to contain edge events is
overlooked. This results in events being written to and read from an
uninitialised kfifo. Read events are returned to userspace.
Initialise the kfifo in the case where the software debounce is
already active.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpiolib: cdev: Fix use after free in lineinfo_changed_notify
The use-after-free issue occurs as follows: when the GPIO chip device file
is being closed by invoking gpio_chrdev_release(), watched_lines is freed
by bitmap_free(), but the unregistration of lineinfo_changed_nb notifier
chain failed due to waiting write rwsem. Additionally, one of the GPIO
chip's lines is also in the release process and holds the notifier chain's
read rwsem. Consequently, a race condition leads to the use-after-free of
watched_lines.
Here is the typical stack when issue happened:
[free]
gpio_chrdev_release()
--> bitmap_free(cdev->watched_lines) <-- freed
--> blocking_notifier_chain_unregister()
--> down_write(&nh->rwsem) <-- waiting rwsem
--> __down_write_common()
--> rwsem_down_write_slowpath()
--> schedule_preempt_disabled()
--> schedule()
[use]
st54spi_gpio_dev_release()
--> gpio_free()
--> gpiod_free()
--> gpiod_free_commit()
--> gpiod_line_state_notify()
--> blocking_notifier_call_chain()
--> down_read(&nh->rwsem); <-- held rwsem
--> notifier_call_chain()
--> lineinfo_changed_notify()
--> test_bit(xxxx, cdev->watched_lines) <-- use after free
The side effect of the use-after-free issue is that a GPIO line event is
being generated for userspace where it shouldn't. However, since the chrdev
is being closed, userspace won't have the chance to read that event anyway.
To fix the issue, call the bitmap_free() function after the unregistration
of lineinfo_changed_nb notifier chain.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during initialization
The devlink reload process will access the hardware resources,
but the register operation is done before the hardware is initialized.
So, processing the devlink reload during initialization may lead to kernel
crash.
This patch fixes this by registering the devlink after
hardware initialization.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()
According to syzbot, there is a chance that ip6_dst_idev()
returns NULL in ip6_output(). Most places in IPv6 stack
deal with a NULL idev just fine, but not here.
syzbot reported:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000bc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000005e0-0x00000000000005e7]
CPU: 0 PID: 9775 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-syzkaller-00157-g6a30653b604a #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:ip6_output+0x231/0x3f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:237
Code: 3c 1e 00 49 89 df 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 19 58 db f7 48 8b 44 24 20 49 89 45 00 49 89 c5 48 8d 9d e0 05 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 4c 8b 74 24 28 0f 85 61 01 00 00 8b 1b 31 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000927f0d8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 00000000000000bc RBX: 00000000000005e0 RCX: 0000000000040000
RDX: ffffc900131f9000 RSI: 0000000000004f47 RDI: 0000000000004f48
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8a1f0b9a R09: 1ffffffff1f51fad
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f51fae R12: ffff8880293ec8c0
R13: ffff88805d7fc000 R14: 1ffff1100527d91a R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 00007f135c6856c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000080 CR3: 0000000064096000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip6_xmit+0xefe/0x17f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:358
sctp_v6_xmit+0x9f2/0x13f0 net/sctp/ipv6.c:248
sctp_packet_transmit+0x26ad/0x2ca0 net/sctp/output.c:653
sctp_packet_singleton+0x22c/0x320 net/sctp/outqueue.c:783
sctp_outq_flush_ctrl net/sctp/outqueue.c:914 [inline]
sctp_outq_flush+0x6d5/0x3e20 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1212
sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1198 [inline]
sctp_do_sm+0x59cc/0x60c0 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1169
sctp_primitive_ASSOCIATE+0x95/0xc0 net/sctp/primitive.c:73
__sctp_connect+0x9cd/0xe30 net/sctp/socket.c:1234
sctp_connect net/sctp/socket.c:4819 [inline]
sctp_inet_connect+0x149/0x1f0 net/sctp/socket.c:4834
__sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2048 [inline]
__sys_connect+0x2df/0x310 net/socket.c:2065
__do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2075 [inline]
__se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2072 [inline]
__x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2072
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fib6_rules: avoid possible NULL dereference in fib6_rule_action()
syzbot is able to trigger the following crash [1],
caused by unsafe ip6_dst_idev() use.
Indeed ip6_dst_idev() can return NULL, and must always be checked.
[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 PID: 31648 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-next-20240417-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:__fib6_rule_action net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:237 [inline]
RIP: 0010:fib6_rule_action+0x241/0x7b0 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:267
Code: 02 00 00 49 8d 9f d8 00 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 f9 32 bf f7 48 8b 1b 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 e0 32 bf f7 4c 8b 03 48 89 ef 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000fc1f2f0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 1a772f98c8186700
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffffff8bcac4e0 RDI: ffffffff8c1f9760
RBP: ffff8880673fb980 R08: ffffffff8fac15ef R09: 1ffffffff1f582bd
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f582be R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000080 R14: ffff888076509000 R15: ffff88807a029a00
FS: 00007f55e82ca6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31d23000 CR3: 0000000022b66000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
fib_rules_lookup+0x62c/0xdb0 net/core/fib_rules.c:317
fib6_rule_lookup+0x1fd/0x790 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:108
ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2637 [inline]
ip6_route_output_flags+0x38e/0x610 net/ipv6/route.c:2649
ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:93 [inline]
ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0x189/0x11a0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1120
ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0xb9/0x180 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1250
sctp_v6_get_dst+0x792/0x1e20 net/sctp/ipv6.c:326
sctp_transport_route+0x12c/0x2e0 net/sctp/transport.c:455
sctp_assoc_add_peer+0x614/0x15c0 net/sctp/associola.c:662
sctp_connect_new_asoc+0x31d/0x6c0 net/sctp/socket.c:1099
__sctp_connect+0x66d/0xe30 net/sctp/socket.c:1197
sctp_connect net/sctp/socket.c:4819 [inline]
sctp_inet_connect+0x149/0x1f0 net/sctp/socket.c:4834
__sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2048 [inline]
__sys_connect+0x2df/0x310 net/socket.c:2065
__do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2075 [inline]
__se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2072 [inline]
__x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2072
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: Fix potential uninit-value access in __ip6_make_skb()
As it was done in commit fc1092f51567 ("ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in
__ip_make_skb()") for IPv4, check FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH on fl6->flowi6_flags
instead of testing HDRINCL on the socket to avoid a race condition which
causes uninit-value access.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access
This is a partial revert of commit 6dbdd4de0362 ("e1000e: Workaround
for sporadic MDI error on Meteor Lake systems"). The referenced commit
used usleep_range inside the PHY access routines, which are sometimes
called from an atomic context. This can lead to a kernel panic in some
scenarios, such as cable disconnection and reconnection on vPro systems.
Solve this by changing the usleep_range calls back to udelay.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
workqueue: Fix selection of wake_cpu in kick_pool()
With cpu_possible_mask=0-63 and cpu_online_mask=0-7 the following
kernel oops was observed:
smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
smp: Brought up 1 node, 8 CPUs
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000803
[..]
Call Trace:
arch_vcpu_is_preempted+0x12/0x80
select_idle_sibling+0x42/0x560
select_task_rq_fair+0x29a/0x3b0
try_to_wake_up+0x38e/0x6e0
kick_pool+0xa4/0x198
__queue_work.part.0+0x2bc/0x3a8
call_timer_fn+0x36/0x160
__run_timers+0x1e2/0x328
__run_timer_base+0x5a/0x88
run_timer_softirq+0x40/0x78
__do_softirq+0x118/0x388
irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0xd8
do_ext_irq+0xae/0x168
ext_int_handler+0xbe/0xf0
psw_idle_exit+0x0/0xc
default_idle_call+0x3c/0x110
do_idle+0xd4/0x158
cpu_startup_entry+0x40/0x48
rest_init+0xc6/0xc8
start_kernel+0x3c4/0x5e0
startup_continue+0x3c/0x50
The crash is caused by calling arch_vcpu_is_preempted() for an offline
CPU. To avoid this, select the cpu with cpumask_any_and_distribute()
to mask __pod_cpumask with cpu_online_mask. In case no cpu is left in
the pool, skip the assignment.
tj: This doesn't fully fix the bug as CPUs can still go down between picking
the target CPU and the wake call. Fixing that likely requires adding
cpu_online() test to either the sched or s390 arch code. However, regardless
of how that is fixed, workqueue shouldn't be picking a CPU which isn't
online as that would result in unpredictable and worse behavior.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect
Christoph reported a splat hinting at a corrupted snd_una:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 38 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 __mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 38 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-gbbeac67456c9 #59
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events mptcp_worker
RIP: 0010:__mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
Code: be 06 01 00 00 bf 06 01 00 00 e8 a8 12 e7 fe e9 00 fe ff ff e8
8e 1a e7 fe 0f b7 ab 3e 02 00 00 e9 d3 fd ff ff e8 7d 1a e7 fe
<0f> 0b 4c 8b bb e0 05 00 00 e9 74 fc ff ff e8 6a 1a e7 fe 0f 0b e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000013fd48 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881029bd280 RCX: ffffffff82382fe4
RDX: ffff8881003cbd00 RSI: ffffffff823833c3 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888138ba8000
R13: 0000000000000106 R14: ffff8881029bd908 R15: ffff888126560000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f604a5dae38 CR3: 0000000101dac002 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1055 [inline]
mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1062 [inline]
__mptcp_retrans+0x7f/0x7e0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2615
mptcp_worker+0x434/0x740 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2767
process_one_work+0x1e0/0x560 kernel/workqueue.c:3254
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3335 [inline]
worker_thread+0x3c7/0x640 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
kthread+0x121/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x44/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243
</TASK>
When fallback to TCP happens early on a client socket, snd_nxt
is not yet initialized and any incoming ack will copy such value
into snd_una. If the mptcp worker (dumbly) tries mptcp-level
re-injection after such ack, that would unconditionally trigger a send
buffer cleanup using 'bad' snd_una values.
We could easily disable re-injection for fallback sockets, but such
dumb behavior already helped catching a few subtle issues and a very
low to zero impact in practice.
Instead address the issue always initializing snd_nxt (and write_seq,
for consistency) at connect time.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers
Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that
will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show().
171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i);
172 if (IS_ERR(label)) {
173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n");
174 continue;
175 }
The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well,
otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.