Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix abort logic in btrfs_replace_file_extents
Error injection testing uncovered a case where we'd end up with a
corrupt file system with a missing extent in the middle of a file. This
occurs because the if statement to decide if we should abort is wrong.
The only way we would abort in this case is if we got a ret !=
-EOPNOTSUPP and we called from the file clone code. However the
prealloc code uses this path too. Instead we need to abort if there is
an error, and the only error we _don't_ abort on is -EOPNOTSUPP and only
if we came from the clone file code.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xhci: Fix command ring pointer corruption while aborting a command
The command ring pointer is located at [6:63] bits of the command
ring control register (CRCR). All the control bits like command stop,
abort are located at [0:3] bits. While aborting a command, we read the
CRCR and set the abort bit and write to the CRCR. The read will always
give command ring pointer as all zeros. So we essentially write only
the control bits. Since we split the 64 bit write into two 32 bit writes,
there is a possibility of xHC command ring stopped before the upper
dword (all zeros) is written. If that happens, xHC updates the upper
dword of its internal command ring pointer with all zeros. Next time,
when the command ring is restarted, we see xHC memory access failures.
Fix this issue by only writing to the lower dword of CRCR where all
control bits are located.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm: fix mempool NULL pointer race when completing IO
dm_io_dec_pending() calls end_io_acct() first and will then dec md
in-flight pending count. But if a task is swapping DM table at same
time this can result in a crash due to mempool->elements being NULL:
task1 task2
do_resume
->do_suspend
->dm_wait_for_completion
bio_endio
->clone_endio
->dm_io_dec_pending
->end_io_acct
->wakeup task1
->dm_swap_table
->__bind
->__bind_mempools
->bioset_exit
->mempool_exit
->free_io
[ 67.330330] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000000000000
......
[ 67.330494] pstate: 80400085 (Nzcv daIf +PAN -UAO)
[ 67.330510] pc : mempool_free+0x70/0xa0
[ 67.330515] lr : mempool_free+0x4c/0xa0
[ 67.330520] sp : ffffff8008013b20
[ 67.330524] x29: ffffff8008013b20 x28: 0000000000000004
[ 67.330530] x27: ffffffa8c2ff40a0 x26: 00000000ffff1cc8
[ 67.330535] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffdada34c800
[ 67.330541] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffffffdada34c800
[ 67.330547] x21: 00000000ffff1cc8 x20: ffffffd9a1304d80
[ 67.330552] x19: ffffffdada34c970 x18: 000000b312625d9c
[ 67.330558] x17: 00000000002dcfbf x16: 00000000000006dd
[ 67.330563] x15: 000000000093b41e x14: 0000000000000010
[ 67.330569] x13: 0000000000007f7a x12: 0000000034155555
[ 67.330574] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000001
[ 67.330579] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 0000000000000000
[ 67.330585] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffffff80148b5c1a
[ 67.330590] x5 : ffffff8008013ae0 x4 : 0000000000000001
[ 67.330596] x3 : ffffff80080139c8 x2 : ffffff801083bab8
[ 67.330601] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffffdada34c970
[ 67.330609] Call trace:
[ 67.330616] mempool_free+0x70/0xa0
[ 67.330627] bio_put+0xf8/0x110
[ 67.330638] dec_pending+0x13c/0x230
[ 67.330644] clone_endio+0x90/0x180
[ 67.330649] bio_endio+0x198/0x1b8
[ 67.330655] dec_pending+0x190/0x230
[ 67.330660] clone_endio+0x90/0x180
[ 67.330665] bio_endio+0x198/0x1b8
[ 67.330673] blk_update_request+0x214/0x428
[ 67.330683] scsi_end_request+0x2c/0x300
[ 67.330688] scsi_io_completion+0xa0/0x710
[ 67.330695] scsi_finish_command+0xd8/0x110
[ 67.330700] scsi_softirq_done+0x114/0x148
[ 67.330708] blk_done_softirq+0x74/0xd0
[ 67.330716] __do_softirq+0x18c/0x374
[ 67.330724] irq_exit+0xb4/0xb8
[ 67.330732] __handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xc0
[ 67.330737] gic_handle_irq+0x148/0x1b0
[ 67.330744] el1_irq+0xe8/0x190
[ 67.330753] lpm_cpuidle_enter+0x4f8/0x538
[ 67.330759] cpuidle_enter_state+0x1fc/0x398
[ 67.330764] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
[ 67.330772] do_idle+0x1b4/0x290
[ 67.330778] cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x28
[ 67.330786] secondary_start_kernel+0x160/0x170
Fix this by:
1) Establishing pointers to 'struct dm_io' members in
dm_io_dec_pending() so that they may be passed into end_io_acct()
_after_ free_io() is called.
2) Moving end_io_acct() after free_io().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: musb: dsps: Fix the probe error path
Commit 7c75bde329d7 ("usb: musb: musb_dsps: request_irq() after
initializing musb") has inverted the calls to
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() and dsps_create_musb_pdev() without
updating correctly the error path. dsps_create_musb_pdev() allocates and
registers a new platform device which must be unregistered and freed
with platform_device_unregister(), and this is missing upon
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() error.
While on the master branch it seems not to trigger any issue, I observed
a kernel crash because of a NULL pointer dereference with a v5.10.70
stable kernel where the patch mentioned above was backported. With this
kernel version, -EPROBE_DEFER is returned the first time
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() is called which triggers the probe to
error out without unregistering the platform device. Unfortunately, on
the Beagle Bone Black Wireless, the platform device still living in the
system is being used by the USB Ethernet gadget driver, which during the
boot phase triggers the crash.
My limited knowledge of the musb world prevents me to revert this commit
which was sent to silence a robot warning which, as far as I understand,
does not make sense. The goal of this patch was to prevent an IRQ to
fire before the platform device being registered. I think this cannot
ever happen due to the fact that enabling the interrupts is done by the
->enable() callback of the platform musb device, and this platform
device must be already registered in order for the core or any other
user to use this callback.
Hence, I decided to fix the error path, which might prevent future
errors on mainline kernels while also fixing older ones.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: adis16475: fix deadlock on frequency set
With commit 39c024b51b560
("iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling"), two deadlocks were
introduced:
1) The call to 'adis_write_reg_16()' was not changed to it's unlocked
version.
2) The lock was not being released on the success path of the function.
This change fixes both these issues.
The Elegant Addons for elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Switcher, Slider, and Iconbox widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘listingfields’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
The Elegant Addons for elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied tag attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Dell BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition, versions before 4.1.5, and Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, versions before 4.6, contain an Observable Timing Discrepancy Vulnerability.