Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: liteuart: fix minor-number leak on probe errors
Make sure to release the allocated minor number before returning on
probe errors.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_cpp_area_cache_add()
In line 800 (#1), nfp_cpp_area_alloc() allocates and initializes a
CPP area structure. But in line 807 (#2), when the cache is allocated
failed, this CPP area structure is not freed, which will result in
memory leak.
We can fix it by freeing the CPP area when the cache is allocated
failed (#2).
792 int nfp_cpp_area_cache_add(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, size_t size)
793 {
794 struct nfp_cpp_area_cache *cache;
795 struct nfp_cpp_area *area;
800 area = nfp_cpp_area_alloc(cpp, NFP_CPP_ID(7, NFP_CPP_ACTION_RW, 0),
801 0, size);
// #1: allocates and initializes
802 if (!area)
803 return -ENOMEM;
805 cache = kzalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL);
806 if (!cache)
807 return -ENOMEM; // #2: missing free
817 return 0;
818 }
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered
There is a short period between a net device starts to be unregistered
and when it is actually gone. In that time frame ethtool operations
could still be performed, which might end up in unwanted or undefined
behaviours[1].
Do not allow ethtool operations after a net device starts its
unregistration. This patch targets the netlink part as the ioctl one
isn't affected: the reference to the net device is taken and the
operation is executed within an rtnl lock section and the net device
won't be found after unregister.
[1] For example adding Tx queues after unregister ends up in NULL
pointer exceptions and UaFs, such as:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_get+0x14/0x90
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801961248c by task ethtool/755
CPU: 0 PID: 755 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #778
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x72
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140
kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
kobject_get+0x14/0x90
kobject_add_internal+0x3d1/0x450
kobject_init_and_add+0xba/0xf0
netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0xcf/0x200
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0xb4/0x310
veth_set_channels+0x1c3/0x550
ethnl_set_channels+0x524/0x610
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: fix potential NULL pointer deref in nfc_genl_dump_ses_done
The done() netlink callback nfc_genl_dump_ses_done() should check if
received argument is non-NULL, because its allocation could fail earlier
in dumpit() (nfc_genl_dump_ses()).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: m_can: m_can_read_fifo: fix memory leak in error branch
In m_can_read_fifo(), if the second call to m_can_fifo_read() fails,
the function jump to the out_fail label and returns without calling
m_can_receive_skb(). This means that the skb previously allocated by
alloc_can_skb() is not freed. In other terms, this is a memory leak.
This patch adds a goto label to destroy the skb if an error occurs.
Issue was found with GCC -fanalyzer, please follow the link below for
details.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix re-dirty process of tree-log nodes
There is a report of a transaction abort of -EAGAIN with the following
script.
#!/bin/sh
for d in sda sdb; do
mkfs.btrfs -d single -m single -f /dev/\${d}
done
mount /dev/sda /mnt/test
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/scratch
for dir in test scratch; do
echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
fio --directory=/mnt/\${dir} --name=fio.\${dir} --rw=read --size=50G --bs=64m \
--numjobs=$(nproc) --time_based --ramp_time=5 --runtime=480 \
--group_reporting |& tee /dev/shm/fio.\${dir}
echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
done
for d in sda sdb; do
umount /dev/\${d}
done
The stack trace is shown in below.
[3310.967991] BTRFS: error (device sda) in btrfs_commit_transaction:2341: errno=-11 unknown (Error while writing out transaction)
[3310.968060] BTRFS info (device sda): forced readonly
[3310.968064] BTRFS warning (device sda): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.
[3310.968065] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[3310.968066] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -11)
[3310.968074] WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 1684 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1946 btrfs_commit_transaction.cold+0x209/0x2c8
[3310.968131] CPU: 14 PID: 1684 Comm: fio Not tainted 5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64 #1
[3310.968135] Hardware name: DIAWAY Tartu/Tartu, BIOS V2.01.B10 04/08/2021
[3310.968137] RIP: 0010:btrfs_commit_transaction.cold+0x209/0x2c8
[3310.968144] RSP: 0018:ffffb284ce393e10 EFLAGS: 00010282
[3310.968147] RAX: 0000000000000026 RBX: ffff973f147b0f60 RCX: 0000000000000027
[3310.968149] RDX: ffff974ecf098a08 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff974ecf098a00
[3310.968150] RBP: ffff973f147b0f08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb284ce393c48
[3310.968151] R10: ffffb284ce393c40 R11: ffffffff84f47468 R12: ffff973f101bfc00
[3310.968153] R13: ffff971f20cf2000 R14: 00000000fffffff5 R15: ffff973f147b0e58
[3310.968154] FS: 00007efe65468740(0000) GS:ffff974ecf080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[3310.968157] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[3310.968158] CR2: 000055691bcbe260 CR3: 000000105cfa4001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[3310.968160] PKRU: 55555554
[3310.968161] Call Trace:
[3310.968167] ? dput+0xd4/0x300
[3310.968174] btrfs_sync_file+0x3f1/0x490
[3310.968180] __x64_sys_fsync+0x33/0x60
[3310.968185] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[3310.968190] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[3310.968194] RIP: 0033:0x7efe6557329b
[3310.968200] RSP: 002b:00007ffe0236ebc0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004a
[3310.968203] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007efe6557329b
[3310.968204] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007efe58d77010 RDI: 0000000000000006
[3310.968205] RBP: 0000000004000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007efe58d77010
[3310.968207] R10: 0000000016cacc0c R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00007efe5ce95980
[3310.968208] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007efe6447c790 R15: 0000000c80000000
[3310.968212] ---[ end trace 1a346f4d3c0d96ba ]---
[3310.968214] BTRFS: error (device sda) in cleanup_transaction:1946: errno=-11 unknown
The abort occurs because of a write hole while writing out freeing tree
nodes of a tree-log tree. For zoned btrfs, we re-dirty a freed tree
node to ensure btrfs can write the region and does not leave a hole on
write on a zoned device. The current code fails to re-dirty a node
when the tree-log tree's depth is greater or equal to 2. That leads to
a transaction abort with -EAGAIN.
Fix the issue by properly re-dirtying a node on walking up the tree.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix negative period/buffer sizes
The period size calculation in OSS layer may receive a negative value
as an error, but the code there assumes only the positive values and
handle them with size_t. Due to that, a too big value may be passed
to the lower layers.
This patch changes the code to handle with ssize_t and adds the proper
error checks appropriately.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: fq_pie: prevent dismantle issue
For some reason, fq_pie_destroy() did not copy
working code from pie_destroy() and other qdiscs,
thus causing elusive bug.
Before calling del_timer_sync(&q->adapt_timer),
we need to ensure timer will not rearm itself.
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 0-....: (4416 ticks this GP) idle=60d/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=10433/10434 fqs=2579
(t=10501 jiffies g=13085 q=3989)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 13 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc4-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x47/0x144 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1b3/0x230 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:164 [inline]
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x25e/0x3f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:343
print_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:627 [inline]
check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:711 [inline]
rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3878 [inline]
rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold+0x9d/0x746 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2597
update_process_times+0x16d/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1785
tick_sched_handle+0x9b/0x180 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:226
tick_sched_timer+0x1b0/0x2d0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1428
__run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x1c0/0xe50 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
hrtimer_interrupt+0x31c/0x790 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1086 [inline]
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x146/0x530 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1103
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:638
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:221 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp1+0x1d/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:273
Code: 54 c8 20 48 89 10 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 41 89 fb 41 89 f1 bf 03 00 00 00 65 48 8b 0c 25 40 70 02 00 48 89 ce 4c 8b 54 24 08 <e8> 4e f7 ff ff 84 c0 74 51 48 8b 81 88 15 00 00 44 8b 81 84 15 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000d27b28 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888064bf1bf0 RCX: ffff888011928000
RDX: ffff888011928000 RSI: ffff888011928000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffff888064bf1c28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff875d8295 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8880783dd300 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
pie_calculate_probability+0x405/0x7c0 net/sched/sch_pie.c:418
fq_pie_timer+0x170/0x2a0 net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c:383
call_timer_fn+0x1a5/0x6b0 kernel/time/timer.c:1421
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1466 [inline]
__run_timers.part.0+0x675/0xa20 kernel/time/timer.c:1734
__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1715 [inline]
run_timer_softirq+0xb3/0x1d0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
__do_softirq+0x29b/0x9c2 kernel/softirq.c:558
run_ksoftirqd kernel/softirq.c:921 [inline]
run_ksoftirqd+0x2d/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:913
smpboot_thread_fn+0x645/0x9c0 kernel/smpboot.c:164
kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: felix: Fix memory leak in felix_setup_mmio_filtering
Avoid a memory leak if there is not a CPU port defined.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492897 ("Resource leak")
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492899 ("Resource leak")
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
devlink: fix netns refcount leak in devlink_nl_cmd_reload()
While preparing my patch series adding netns refcount tracking,
I spotted bugs in devlink_nl_cmd_reload()
Some error paths forgot to release a refcount on a netns.
To fix this, we can reduce the scope of get_net()/put_net()
section around the call to devlink_reload().