Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Fix page corruption caused by racy check in __free_pages
When we upgraded our kernel, we started seeing some page corruption like
the following consistently:
BUG: Bad page state in process ganesha.nfsd pfn:1304ca
page:0000000022261c55 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1304ca
flags: 0x17ffffc0000000()
raw: 0017ffffc0000000 ffff8a513ffd4c98 ffffeee24b35ec08 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
CPU: 0 PID: 15567 Comm: ganesha.nfsd Kdump: loaded Tainted: P B O 5.10.158-1.nutanix.20221209.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 04/05/2016
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x74/0x96
bad_page.cold+0x63/0x94
check_new_page_bad+0x6d/0x80
rmqueue+0x46e/0x970
get_page_from_freelist+0xcb/0x3f0
? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x164/0x300
alloc_pages_current+0x87/0xf0
skb_page_frag_refill+0x84/0x110
...
Sometimes, it would also show up as corruption in the free list pointer
and cause crashes.
After bisecting the issue, we found the issue started from commit
e320d3012d25 ("mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages"):
if (put_page_testzero(page))
free_the_page(page, order);
else if (!PageHead(page))
while (order-- > 0)
free_the_page(page + (1 << order), order);
So the problem is the check PageHead is racy because at this point we
already dropped our reference to the page. So even if we came in with
compound page, the page can already be freed and PageHead can return
false and we will end up freeing all the tail pages causing double free.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix interrupt exit race with security mitigation switch
The RFI and STF security mitigation options can flip the
interrupt_exit_not_reentrant static branch condition concurrently with
the interrupt exit code which tests that branch.
Interrupt exit tests this condition to set MSR[EE|RI] for exit, then
again in the case a soft-masked interrupt is found pending, to recover
the MSR so the interrupt can be replayed before attempting to exit
again. If the condition changes between these two tests, the MSR and irq
soft-mask state will become corrupted, leading to warnings and possible
crashes. For example, if the branch is initially true then false,
MSR[EE] will be 0 but PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS clear and EE may not get
enabled, leading to warnings in irq_64.c.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek()
When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64
bit inode space, that triggered some corner case bugs, in particular
some integer overflows related to the radix tree code. Oops.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa: ifcvf: Do proper cleanup if IFCVF init fails
ifcvf_mgmt_dev leaks memory if it is not freed before
returning. Call is made to correct return statement
so memory does not leak. ifcvf_init_hw does not take
care of this so it is needed to do it here.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/region: Fix null pointer dereference for resetting decoder
Not all decoders have a reset callback.
The CXL specification allows a host bridge with a single root port to
have no explicit HDM decoders. Currently the region driver assumes there
are none. As such the CXL core creates a special pass through decoder
instance without a commit/reset callback.
Prior to this patch, the ->reset() callback was called unconditionally when
calling cxl_region_decode_reset. Thus a configuration with 1 Host Bridge,
1 Root Port, and one directly attached CXL type 3 device or multiple CXL
type 3 devices attached to downstream ports of a switch can cause a null
pointer dereference.
Before the fix, a kernel crash was observed when we destroy the region, and
a pass through decoder is reset.
The issue can be reproduced as below,
1) create a region with a CXL setup which includes a HB with a
single root port under which a memdev is attached directly.
2) destroy the region with cxl destroy-region regionX -f.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: single: fix potential NULL dereference
Added checking of pointer "function" in pcs_set_mux().
pinmux_generic_get_function() can return NULL and the pointer
"function" was dereferenced without checking against NULL.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: switch: fix potential memleak in ice_add_adv_recipe()
When ice_add_special_words() fails, the 'rm' is not released, which will
lead to a memory leak. Fix this up by going to 'err_unroll' label.
Compile tested only.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/radeon: fix a possible null pointer dereference
In radeon_fp_native_mode(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate()
is assigned to mode, which will lead to a NULL pointer dereference
on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.
The failure status of drm_cvt_mode() on the other path is checked too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: fix kernel warning when sending SYN message
When sending a SYN message, this kernel stack trace is observed:
...
[ 13.396352] RIP: 0010:_copy_from_iter+0xb4/0x550
...
[ 13.398494] Call Trace:
[ 13.398630] <TASK>
[ 13.398630] ? __alloc_skb+0xed/0x1a0
[ 13.398630] tipc_msg_build+0x12c/0x670 [tipc]
[ 13.398630] ? shmem_add_to_page_cache.isra.71+0x151/0x290
[ 13.398630] __tipc_sendmsg+0x2d1/0x710 [tipc]
[ 13.398630] ? tipc_connect+0x1d9/0x230 [tipc]
[ 13.398630] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x37/0x80
[ 13.398630] tipc_connect+0x1d9/0x230 [tipc]
[ 13.398630] ? __sys_connect+0x9f/0xd0
[ 13.398630] __sys_connect+0x9f/0xd0
[ 13.398630] ? preempt_count_add+0x4d/0xa0
[ 13.398630] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x22/0x50
[ 13.398630] __x64_sys_connect+0x16/0x20
[ 13.398630] do_syscall_64+0x42/0x90
[ 13.398630] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
It is because commit a41dad905e5a ("iov_iter: saner checks for attempt
to copy to/from iterator") has introduced sanity check for copying
from/to iov iterator. Lacking of copy direction from the iterator
viewpoint would lead to kernel stack trace like above.
This commit fixes this issue by initializing the iov iterator with
the correct copy direction when sending SYN or ACK without data.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: use a bounce buffer for copying skb->mark
syzbot found arm64 builds would crash in sock_recv_mark()
when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
x86 and powerpc are not detecting the issue because
they define user_access_begin.
This will be handled in a different patch,
because a check_object_size() is missing.
Only data from skb->cb[] can be copied directly to/from user space,
as explained in commit 79a8a642bf05 ("net: Whitelist
the skbuff_head_cache "cb" field")
syzbot report was:
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'skbuff_head_cache' (offset 168, size 4)!
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102 !
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 4410 Comm: syz-executor533 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7-syzkaller-17907-g2d3827b3f393 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/21/2023
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90
lr : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90
sp : ffff80000fb9b9a0
x29: ffff80000fb9b9b0 x28: ffff0000c6073400 x27: 0000000020001a00
x26: 0000000000000014 x25: ffff80000cf52000 x24: fffffc0000000000
x23: 05ffc00000000200 x22: fffffc000324bf80 x21: ffff0000c92fe1a8
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000004 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 656a626f2042554c x16: ffff0000c6073dd0 x15: ffff80000dbd2118
x14: ffff0000c6073400 x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff0000c6073400
x11: ff808000081bbb4c x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 7b0572d7cc0ccf00
x8 : 7b0572d7cc0ccf00 x7 : ffff80000bf650d4 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffff0001fefbff08 x1 : 0000000100000000 x0 : 000000000000006c
Call trace:
usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90
__check_heap_object+0xa8/0x100 mm/slub.c:4761
check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:196 [inline]
__check_object_size+0x208/0x6b8 mm/usercopy.c:251
check_object_size include/linux/thread_info.h:199 [inline]
__copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:115 [inline]
put_cmsg+0x408/0x464 net/core/scm.c:238
sock_recv_mark net/socket.c:975 [inline]
__sock_recv_cmsgs+0x1fc/0x248 net/socket.c:984
sock_recv_cmsgs include/net/sock.h:2728 [inline]
packet_recvmsg+0x2d8/0x678 net/packet/af_packet.c:3482
____sys_recvmsg+0x110/0x3a0
___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2737 [inline]
__sys_recvmsg+0x194/0x210 net/socket.c:2767
__do_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2777 [inline]
__se_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2774 [inline]
__arm64_sys_recvmsg+0x2c/0x3c net/socket.c:2774
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
invoke_syscall+0x64/0x178 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
el0_svc_common+0xbc/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x110 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:193
el0_svc+0x58/0x14c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:591
Code: 91388800 aa0903e1 f90003e8 94e6d752 (d4210000)
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-05-21