Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled
When we try to add an IPv6 nexthop and IPv6 is not enabled
(!CONFIG_IPV6) we'll hit a NULL pointer dereference[1] in the error path
of nh_create_ipv6() due to calling ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release. The bug
has been present since the beginning of IPv6 nexthop gateway support.
Commit 1aefd3de7bc6 ("ipv6: Add fib6_nh_init and release to stubs") tells
us that only fib6_nh_init has a dummy stub because fib6_nh_release should
not be called if fib6_nh_init returns an error, but the commit below added
a call to ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in its error path. To fix it return
the dummy stub's -EAFNOSUPPORT error directly without calling
ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in nh_create_ipv6()'s error path.
[1]
Output is a bit truncated, but it clearly shows the error.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000000
#PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel modede
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present pagege
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 4 PID: 638 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #446
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffff888109f5b8f0 EFLAGS: 00010286^Ac
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888109f5ba28 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881008a2860
RBP: ffff888109f5b9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888109f5b978 R11: ffff888109f5b948 R12: 00000000ffffff9f
R13: ffff8881008a2a80 R14: ffff8881008a2860 R15: ffff8881008a2840
FS: 00007f98de70f100(0000) GS:ffff88822bf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000100efc000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nh_create_ipv6+0xed/0x10c
rtm_new_nexthop+0x6d7/0x13f3
? check_preemption_disabled+0x3d/0xf2
? lock_is_held_type+0xbe/0xfd
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x23f/0x26a
? check_preemption_disabled+0x3d/0xf2
? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x147/0x147
netlink_rcv_skb+0x61/0xb2
netlink_unicast+0x100/0x187
netlink_sendmsg+0x37f/0x3a0
? netlink_unicast+0x187/0x187
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x67/0x9b
____sys_sendmsg+0x19d/0x1f9
? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x4c/0x5e
? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x2a/0x78
___sys_sendmsg+0x6c/0x8c
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xd9/0x102
? sockfd_lookup_light+0x69/0x99
__sys_sendmsg+0x50/0x6e
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0xf2
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f98dea28914
Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b5 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 05 e9 5d 0c 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53
RSP: 002b:00007fff859f5e68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e2e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000619cb810 RCX: 00007f98dea28914
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fff859f5ed0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: fffffffffffffce6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 000055c0097ae520 R14: 000055c0097957fd R15: 00007fff859f63a0
</TASK>
Modules linked in: bridge stp llc bonding virtio_net
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: avoid bpf_prog refcount underflow
Ice driver has the routines for managing XDP resources that are shared
between ndo_bpf op and VSI rebuild flow. The latter takes place for
example when user changes queue count on an interface via ethtool's
set_channels().
There is an issue around the bpf_prog refcounting when VSI is being
rebuilt - since ice_prepare_xdp_rings() is called with vsi->xdp_prog as
an argument that is used later on by ice_vsi_assign_bpf_prog(), same
bpf_prog pointers are swapped with each other. Then it is also
interpreted as an 'old_prog' which in turn causes us to call
bpf_prog_put on it that will decrement its refcount.
Below splat can be interpreted in a way that due to zero refcount of a
bpf_prog it is wiped out from the system while kernel still tries to
refer to it:
[ 481.069429] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc9000640f038
[ 481.077390] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 481.083335] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 481.089276] PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1001cb067 PMD 106d2b067 PTE 0
[ 481.097141] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 481.101980] CPU: 12 PID: 3339 Comm: sudo Tainted: G OE 5.15.0-rc5+ #1
[ 481.110840] Hardware name: Intel Corp. GRANTLEY/GRANTLEY, BIOS GRRFCRB1.86B.0276.D07.1605190235 05/19/2016
[ 481.122021] RIP: 0010:dev_xdp_prog_id+0x25/0x40
[ 481.127265] Code: 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 f6 48 c1 e6 04 48 01 fe 48 8b 86 98 08 00 00 48 85 c0 74 13 48 8b 50 18 31 c0 48 85 d2 74 07 <48> 8b 42 38 8b 40 20 c3 48 8b 96 90 08 00 00 eb e8 66 2e 0f 1f 84
[ 481.148991] RSP: 0018:ffffc90007b63868 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 481.155034] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff889080824000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 481.163278] RDX: ffffc9000640f000 RSI: ffff889080824010 RDI: ffff889080824000
[ 481.171527] RBP: ffff888107af7d00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88810db5f6e0
[ 481.179776] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8890885b9988 R12: ffff88810db5f4bc
[ 481.188026] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 481.196276] FS: 00007f5466d5bec0(0000) GS:ffff88903fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 481.205633] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 481.212279] CR2: ffffc9000640f038 CR3: 000000014429c006 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[ 481.220530] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 481.228771] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 481.237029] Call Trace:
[ 481.239856] rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x768/0x12e0
[ 481.244602] rtnl_dump_ifinfo+0x525/0x650
[ 481.249246] ? __alloc_skb+0xa5/0x280
[ 481.253484] netlink_dump+0x168/0x3c0
[ 481.257725] netlink_recvmsg+0x21e/0x3e0
[ 481.262263] ____sys_recvmsg+0x87/0x170
[ 481.266707] ? __might_fault+0x20/0x30
[ 481.271046] ? _copy_from_user+0x66/0xa0
[ 481.275591] ? iovec_from_user+0xf6/0x1c0
[ 481.280226] ___sys_recvmsg+0x82/0x100
[ 481.284566] ? sock_sendmsg+0x5e/0x60
[ 481.288791] ? __sys_sendto+0xee/0x150
[ 481.293129] __sys_recvmsg+0x56/0xa0
[ 481.297267] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[ 481.301395] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 481.307238] RIP: 0033:0x7f5466f39617
[ 481.311373] Code: 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bd 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2f 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10
[ 481.342944] RSP: 002b:00007ffedc7f4308 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002f
[ 481.361783] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffedc7f5460 RCX: 00007f5466f39617
[ 481.380278] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffedc7f5360 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 481.398500] RBP: 00007ffedc7f53f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055d556f04d50
[ 481.416463] R10: 0000000000000077 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffedc7f5360
[ 481.434131] R13: 00007ffedc7f5350 R14: 00007ffedc7f5344 R15: 0000000000000e98
[ 481.451520] Modules linked in: ice
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: marvell: prestera: fix double free issue on err path
fix error path handling in prestera_bridge_port_join() that
cases prestera driver to crash (see below).
Trace:
Internal error: Oops: 96000044 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: prestera_pci prestera uio_pdrv_genirq
CPU: 1 PID: 881 Comm: ip Not tainted 5.15.0 #1
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : prestera_bridge_destroy+0x2c/0xb0 [prestera]
lr : prestera_bridge_port_join+0x2cc/0x350 [prestera]
sp : ffff800011a1b0f0
...
x2 : ffff000109ca6c80 x1 : dead000000000100 x0 : dead000000000122
Call trace:
prestera_bridge_destroy+0x2c/0xb0 [prestera]
prestera_bridge_port_join+0x2cc/0x350 [prestera]
prestera_netdev_port_event.constprop.0+0x3c4/0x450 [prestera]
prestera_netdev_event_handler+0xf4/0x110 [prestera]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x80
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x54/0xa0
__netdev_upper_dev_link+0x19c/0x380
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpt3sas: Fix kernel panic during drive powercycle test
While looping over shost's sdev list it is possible that one
of the drives is getting removed and its sas_target object is
freed but its sdev object remains intact.
Consequently, a kernel panic can occur while the driver is trying to access
the sas_address field of sas_target object without also checking the
sas_target object for NULL.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()
To clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use
clear_user(). With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcore_cb and
has some logically unplugged memory inside an added Linux memory block,
I can easily trigger a BUG by copying the vmcore via "cp":
systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...
kdump[420]: Kdump is using the default log level(3).
kdump[453]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
kdump[458]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
kdump[465]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete
kdump[467]: saving vmcore
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2374e01000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
PGD 7a523067 P4D 7a523067 PUD 7a528067 PMD 7a525067 PTE 800000007048f867
Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: cp Not tainted 5.15.0+ #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/0x86
Code: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 <49> c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 05 f8 00 00 00 00 48 83 e7 f81
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000073be08 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 00000000002fd000 RCX: 00007f2374e01000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: 00007f2374e01008
RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000073bc50
R10: ffffc9000073bc48 R11: ffffffff829461a8 R12: 000000000000f000
R13: 00007f2374e01000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807bd421e8
FS: 00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2374e01000 CR3: 000000007a4aa000 CR4: 0000000000350eb0
Call Trace:
read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0
proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0
vfs_read+0x95/0x190
ksys_read+0x4f/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Some x86-64 CPUs have a CPU feature called "Supervisor Mode Access
Prevention (SMAP)", which is used to detect wrong access from the kernel
to user buffers like this: SMAP triggers a permissions violation on
wrong access. In the x86-64 variant of clear_user(), SMAP is properly
handled via clac()+stac().
To fix, properly use clear_user() when we're dealing with a user buffer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/32: Fix hardlockup on vmap stack overflow
Since the commit c118c7303ad5 ("powerpc/32: Fix vmap stack - Do not
activate MMU before reading task struct") a vmap stack overflow
results in a hard lockup. This is because emergency_ctx is still
addressed with its virtual address allthough data MMU is not active
anymore at that time.
Fix it by using a physical address instead.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-mq: cancel blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue and disk_release()
For avoiding to slow down queue destroy, we don't call
blk_mq_quiesce_queue() in blk_cleanup_queue(), instead of delaying to
cancel dispatch work in blk_release_queue().
However, this way has caused kernel oops[1], reported by Changhui. The log
shows that scsi_device can be freed before running blk_release_queue(),
which is expected too since scsi_device is released after the scsi disk
is closed and the scsi_device is removed.
Fixes the issue by canceling blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue()
and disk_release():
1) when disk_release() is run, the disk has been closed, and any sync
dispatch activities have been done, so canceling dispatch work is enough to
quiesce filesystem I/O dispatch activity.
2) in blk_cleanup_queue(), we only focus on passthrough request, and
passthrough request is always explicitly allocated & freed by
its caller, so once queue is frozen, all sync dispatch activity
for passthrough request has been done, then it is enough to just cancel
dispatch work for avoiding any dispatch activity.
[1] kernel panic log
[12622.769416] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000300
[12622.777186] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[12622.782918] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[12622.788649] PGD 0 P4D 0
[12622.791474] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[12622.796138] CPU: 10 PID: 744 Comm: kworker/10:1H Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.15.0+ #1
[12622.804877] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0H21J3, BIOS 1.5.4 10/002/2015
[12622.813321] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
[12622.818572] RIP: 0010:sbitmap_get+0x75/0x190
[12622.823336] Code: 85 80 00 00 00 41 8b 57 08 85 d2 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 45 31 e4 48 63 cd 48 8d 1c 49 48 c1 e3 06 49 03 5f 10 4c 8d 6b 40 83 f0 01 <48> 8b 33 44 89 f2 4c 89 ef 0f b6 c8 e8 fa f3 ff ff 83 f8 ff 75 58
[12622.844290] RSP: 0018:ffffb00a446dbd40 EFLAGS: 00010202
[12622.850120] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000300 RCX: 0000000000000004
[12622.858082] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffffa0b7a2dfe030
[12622.866042] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffa0b742721334
[12622.874003] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: 0000000000000000
[12622.881964] R13: 0000000000000340 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffa0b7a2dfe030
[12622.889926] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0baafb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[12622.898956] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[12622.905367] CR2: 0000000000000300 CR3: 0000000641210001 CR4: 00000000001706e0
[12622.913328] Call Trace:
[12622.916055] <TASK>
[12622.918394] scsi_mq_get_budget+0x1a/0x110
[12622.922969] __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x1d4/0x320
[12622.928404] ? pick_next_task_fair+0x39/0x390
[12622.933268] __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xf4/0x140
[12622.939194] blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
[12622.944829] __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x30/0xa0
[12622.949593] process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0
[12622.954059] worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0
[12622.958144] ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370
[12622.962616] kthread+0x158/0x180
[12622.966218] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
[12622.970884] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[12622.974875] </TASK>
[12622.977309] Modules linked in: scsi_debug rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache netfs sunrpc dm_multipath intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common dell_wmi_descriptor sb_edac rfkill video x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp dcdbas coretemp kvm_intel kvm mgag200 irqbypass i2c_algo_bit rapl drm_kms_helper ipmi_ssif intel_cstate intel_uncore syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops pcspkr cec mei_me lpc_ich mei ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter drm fuse xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod t10_pi sg ixgbe ahci libahci crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel libata megaraid_sas ghash_clmulni_intel tg3 wdat_w
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/scs: Reset task stack state in bringup_cpu()
To hot unplug a CPU, the idle task on that CPU calls a few layers of C
code before finally leaving the kernel. When KASAN is in use, poisoned
shadow is left around for each of the active stack frames, and when
shadow call stacks are in use. When shadow call stacks (SCS) are in use
the task's saved SCS SP is left pointing at an arbitrary point within
the task's shadow call stack.
When a CPU is offlined than onlined back into the kernel, this stale
state can adversely affect execution. Stale KASAN shadow can alias new
stackframes and result in bogus KASAN warnings. A stale SCS SP is
effectively a memory leak, and prevents a portion of the shadow call
stack being used. Across a number of hotplug cycles the idle task's
entire shadow call stack can become unusable.
We previously fixed the KASAN issue in commit:
e1b77c92981a5222 ("sched/kasan: remove stale KASAN poison after hotplug")
... by removing any stale KASAN stack poison immediately prior to
onlining a CPU.
Subsequently in commit:
f1a0a376ca0c4ef1 ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")
... the refactoring left the KASAN and SCS cleanup in one-time idle
thread initialization code rather than something invoked prior to each
CPU being onlined, breaking both as above.
We fixed SCS (but not KASAN) in commit:
63acd42c0d4942f7 ("sched/scs: Reset the shadow stack when idle_task_exit")
... but as this runs in the context of the idle task being offlined it's
potentially fragile.
To fix these consistently and more robustly, reset the SCS SP and KASAN
shadow of a CPU's idle task immediately before we online that CPU in
bringup_cpu(). This ensures the idle task always has a consistent state
when it is running, and removes the need to so so when exiting an idle
task.
Whenever any thread is created, dup_task_struct() will give the task a
stack which is free of KASAN shadow, and initialize the task's SCS SP,
so there's no need to specially initialize either for idle thread within
init_idle(), as this was only necessary to handle hotplug cycles.
I've tested this on arm64 with:
* gcc 11.1.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK
* clang 12.0.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK, SHADOW_CALL_STACK
... offlining and onlining CPUS with:
| while true; do
| for C in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online; do
| echo 0 > $C;
| echo 1 > $C;
| done
| done
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa_sim: avoid putting an uninitialized iova_domain
The system will crash if we put an uninitialized iova_domain, this
could happen when an error occurs before initializing the iova_domain
in vdpasim_create().
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
RIP: 0010:__cpuhp_state_remove_instance+0x96/0x1c0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
put_iova_domain+0x29/0x220
vdpasim_free+0xd1/0x120 [vdpa_sim]
vdpa_release_dev+0x21/0x40 [vdpa]
device_release+0x33/0x90
kobject_release+0x63/0x160
vdpasim_create+0x127/0x2a0 [vdpa_sim]
vdpasim_net_dev_add+0x7d/0xfe [vdpa_sim_net]
vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0xe1/0x1a0 [vdpa]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x112/0x140
genl_rcv_msg+0xdf/0x1d0
...
So we must make sure the iova_domain is already initialized before
put it.
In addition, we may get the following warning in this case:
WARNING: ... drivers/iommu/iova.c:344 iova_cache_put+0x58/0x70
So we must make sure the iova_cache_put() is invoked only if the
iova_cache_get() is already invoked. Let's fix it together.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: vlan: fix underflow for the real_dev refcnt
Inject error before dev_hold(real_dev) in register_vlan_dev(),
and execute the following testcase:
ip link add dev dummy1 type dummy
ip link add name dummy1.100 link dummy1 type vlan id 100
ip link del dev dummy1
When the dummy netdevice is removed, we will get a WARNING as following:
=======================================================================
refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0xbf/0x1e0
and an endless loop of:
=======================================================================
unregister_netdevice: waiting for dummy1 to become free. Usage count = -1073741824
That is because dev_put(real_dev) in vlan_dev_free() be called without
dev_hold(real_dev) in register_vlan_dev(). It makes the refcnt of real_dev
underflow.
Move the dev_hold(real_dev) to vlan_dev_init() which is the call-back of
ndo_init(). That makes dev_hold() and dev_put() for vlan's real_dev
symmetrical.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-24