Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In July 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress
A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with
the following visible in dmesg;
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 26s! [kcompactd0:479]
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 52s! [kcompactd0:479]
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 78s! [kcompactd0:479]
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 104s! [kcompactd0:479]
The machine had 256G of RAM with no swap and an earlier failed
allocation indicated that node 0 where kcompactd was run was potentially
unreclaimable;
Node 0 active_anon:29355112kB inactive_anon:2913528kB active_file:0kB
inactive_file:0kB unevictable:64kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB
mapped:8kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB shmem:26780kB shmem_thp:
0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 23480320kB writeback_tmp:0kB
kernel_stack:2272kB pagetables:24500kB all_unreclaimable? yes
Vlastimil Babka investigated a crash dump and found that a task
migrating pages was trying to drain PCP lists;
PID: 52922 TASK: ffff969f820e5000 CPU: 19 COMMAND: "kworker/u128:3"
Call Trace:
__schedule
schedule
schedule_timeout
wait_for_completion
__flush_work
__drain_all_pages
__alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.114
__alloc_pages
alloc_migration_target
migrate_pages
migrate_to_node
do_migrate_pages
cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn
process_one_work
worker_thread
kthread
ret_from_fork
This failure is specific to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. The root of the
problem is that kcompact0 is not rescheduling on a CPU while a task that
has isolated a large number of the pages from the LRU is waiting on
kcompact0 to reschedule so the pages can be released. While
shrink_inactive_list() only loops once around too_many_isolated, reclaim
can continue without rescheduling if sc->skipped_deactivate == 1 which
could happen if there was no file LRU and the inactive anon list was not
low.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vt_ioctl: fix array_index_nospec in vt_setactivate
array_index_nospec ensures that an out-of-bounds value is set to zero
on the transient path. Decreasing the value by one afterwards causes
a transient integer underflow. vsa.console should be decreased first
and then sanitized with array_index_nospec.
Kasper Acknowledgements: Jakob Koschel, Brian Johannesmeyer, Kaveh
Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida from the VUSec group at VU
Amsterdam.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup
ax88179_rx_fixup() contains several out-of-bounds accesses that can be
triggered by a malicious (or defective) USB device, in particular:
- The metadata array (hdr_off..hdr_off+2*pkt_cnt) can be out of bounds,
causing OOB reads and (on big-endian systems) OOB endianness flips.
- A packet can overlap the metadata array, causing a later OOB
endianness flip to corrupt data used by a cloned SKB that has already
been handed off into the network stack.
- A packet SKB can be constructed whose tail is far beyond its end,
causing out-of-bounds heap data to be considered part of the SKB's
data.
I have tested that this can be used by a malicious USB device to send a
bogus ICMPv6 Echo Request and receive an ICMPv6 Echo Reply in response
that contains random kernel heap data.
It's probably also possible to get OOB writes from this on a
little-endian system somehow - maybe by triggering skb_cow() via IP
options processing -, but I haven't tested that.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: rawnand: gpmi: don't leak PM reference in error path
If gpmi_nfc_apply_timings() fails, the PM runtime usage counter must be
dropped.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mscc: ocelot: fix use-after-free in ocelot_vlan_del()
ocelot_vlan_member_del() will free the struct ocelot_bridge_vlan, so if
this is the same as the port's pvid_vlan which we access afterwards,
what we're accessing is freed memory.
Fix the bug by determining whether to clear ocelot_port->pvid_vlan prior
to calling ocelot_vlan_member_del().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - get rid of alg_memory_allocated
alg_memory_allocated does not seem to be really used.
alg_proto does have a .memory_allocated field, but no
corresponding .sysctl_mem.
This means sk_has_account() returns true, but all sk_prot_mem_limits()
users will trigger a NULL dereference [1].
THis was not a problem until SO_RESERVE_MEM addition.
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 3591 Comm: syz-executor153 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3-syzkaller-00316-gb81b1829e7e3 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:sk_prot_mem_limits include/net/sock.h:1523 [inline]
RIP: 0010:sock_reserve_memory+0x1d7/0x330 net/core/sock.c:1000
Code: 08 00 74 08 48 89 ef e8 27 20 bb f9 4c 03 7c 24 10 48 8b 6d 00 48 83 c5 08 48 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 48 89 ef e8 fb 1f bb f9 48 8b 6d 00 4c 89 ff 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001f1fb68 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88814aabc000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff90e18120
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff21c3025
R10: fffffbfff21c3025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8d109840
R13: 0000000000001002 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 0000555556e08300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc74416f130 CR3: 0000000073d9e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sock_setsockopt+0x14a9/0x3a30 net/core/sock.c:1446
__sys_setsockopt+0x5af/0x980 net/socket.c:2176
__do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2191 [inline]
__se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2188 [inline]
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb1/0xc0 net/socket.c:2188
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7fc7440fddc9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 15 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe98f07968 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000036
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fc7440fddc9
RDX: 0000000000000049 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00007ffe98f07990
R10: 0000000020000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe98f0798c
R13: 00007ffe98f079a0 R14: 00007ffe98f079e0 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:sk_prot_mem_limits include/net/sock.h:1523 [inline]
RIP: 0010:sock_reserve_memory+0x1d7/0x330 net/core/sock.c:1000
Code: 08 00 74 08 48 89 ef e8 27 20 bb f9 4c 03 7c 24 10 48 8b 6d 00 48 83 c5 08 48 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 48 89 ef e8 fb 1f bb f9 48 8b 6d 00 4c 89 ff 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001f1fb68 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88814aabc000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff90e18120
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff21c3025
R10: fffffbfff21c3025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8d109840
R13: 0000000000001002 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 0000555556e08300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc74416f130 CR3: 0000000073d9e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mctp: fix use after free
Clang static analysis reports this problem
route.c:425:4: warning: Use of memory after it is freed
trace_mctp_key_acquire(key);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When mctp_key_add() fails, key is freed but then is later
used in trace_mctp_key_acquire(). Add an else statement
to use the key only when mctp_key_add() is successful.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: fix use after free in gswip_remove()
of_node_put(priv->ds->slave_mii_bus->dev.of_node) should be
done before mdiobus_free(priv->ds->slave_mii_bus).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction
My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
interfaces as nl_owner_dead.
The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.
Fix this by only iterating once.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iwlwifi: fix use-after-free
If no firmware was present at all (or, presumably, all of the
firmware files failed to parse), we end up unbinding by calling
device_release_driver(), which calls remove(), which then in
iwlwifi calls iwl_drv_stop(), freeing the 'drv' struct. However
the new code I added will still erroneously access it after it
was freed.
Set 'failure=false' in this case to avoid the access, all data
was already freed anyway.