Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()
It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for
updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully)
returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to
occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report
what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This
caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory
address.
Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely
access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted,
otherwise report what was in that location.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mac80211: fix skb length check in ieee80211_scan_rx()
Replace hard-coded compile-time constants for header length check
with dynamic determination based on the frame type. Otherwise, we
hit a validation WARN_ON in cfg80211 later.
[style fixes, reword commit message]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: Avoid WARN_ON timing related checks
The soft/batadv interface for a queued OGM can be changed during the time
the OGM was queued for transmission and when the OGM is actually
transmitted by the worker.
But WARN_ON must be used to denote kernel bugs and not to print simple
warnings. A warning can simply be printed using pr_warn.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix potential memory leak in DMUB hw_init
[Why]
On resume we perform DMUB hw_init which allocates memory:
dm_resume->dm_dmub_hw_init->dc_dmub_srv_create->kzalloc
That results in memory leak in suspend/resume scenarios.
[How]
Allocate memory for the DC wrapper to DMUB only if it was not
allocated before.
No need to reallocate it on suspend/resume.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Fix use-after-free in gfs2_glock_shrink_scan
The GLF_LRU flag is checked under lru_lock in gfs2_glock_remove_from_lru() to
remove the glock from the lru list in __gfs2_glock_put().
On the shrink scan path, the same flag is cleared under lru_lock but because
of cond_resched_lock(&lru_lock) in gfs2_dispose_glock_lru(), progress on the
put side can be made without deleting the glock from the lru list.
Keep GLF_LRU across the race window opened by cond_resched_lock(&lru_lock) to
ensure correct behavior on both sides - clear GLF_LRU after list_del under
lru_lock.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access
Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC
register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed."
Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of
kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC:
write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly
disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure
Our syzkaller trigger the "BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_wb_list))" in
clear_inode:
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:519!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
Process syz-executor.0 (pid: 249, stack limit = 0x00000000a12409d7)
CPU: 1 PID: 249 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.95
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
lr : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
Call trace:
clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
ext4_clear_inode+0x38/0xe8
ext4_free_inode+0x130/0xc68
ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xcb8
evict+0x1a8/0x3c0
iput+0x344/0x460
do_unlinkat+0x260/0x410
__arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0
el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x3b0
el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
el0_svc+0x10/0x218
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
A crash dump of this problem show that someone called __munlock_pagevec
to clear page LRU without lock_page: do_mmap -> mmap_region -> do_munmap
-> munlock_vma_pages_range -> __munlock_pagevec.
As a result memory_failure will call identify_page_state without
wait_on_page_writeback. And after truncate_error_page clear the mapping
of this page. end_page_writeback won't call sb_clear_inode_writeback to
clear inode->i_wb_list. That will trigger BUG_ON in clear_inode!
Fix it by checking PageWriteback too to help determine should we skip
wait_on_page_writeback.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ieee802154: fix null deref in parse dev addr
Fix a logic error that could result in a null deref if the user sets
the mode incorrectly for the given addr type.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()
After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is set via
dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(). Otherwise
device name will be leaked because it is allocated dynamically in
dev_set_name().
Fix the leak by replacing kfree() with put_device(). Since
scsi_host_dev_release() properly handles IDA and kthread removal, remove
special-casing these from the error handling as well.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Fix use-after-free in nfs4_init_client()
KASAN reports a use-after-free when attempting to mount two different
exports through two different NICs that belong to the same server.
Olga was able to hit this with kernels starting somewhere between 5.7
and 5.10, but I traced the patch that introduced the clear_bit() call to
4.13. So something must have changed in the refcounting of the clp
pointer to make this call to nfs_put_client() the very last one.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-05-21