Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In August 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/dasd: fix error checks in dasd_copy_pair_store()
dasd_add_busid() can return an error via ERR_PTR() if an allocation
fails. However, two callsites in dasd_copy_pair_store() do not check
the result, potentially resulting in a NULL pointer dereference. Fix
this by checking the result with IS_ERR() and returning the error up
the stack.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to don't dirty inode for readonly filesystem
syzbot reports f2fs bug as below:
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inode.c:933!
RIP: 0010:f2fs_evict_inode+0x1576/0x1590 fs/f2fs/inode.c:933
Call Trace:
evict+0x2a4/0x620 fs/inode.c:664
dispose_list fs/inode.c:697 [inline]
evict_inodes+0x5f8/0x690 fs/inode.c:747
generic_shutdown_super+0x9d/0x2c0 fs/super.c:675
kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1667
kill_f2fs_super+0x303/0x3b0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4894
deactivate_locked_super+0xc1/0x130 fs/super.c:484
cleanup_mnt+0x426/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1256
task_work_run+0x24a/0x300 kernel/task_work.c:180
ptrace_notify+0x2cd/0x380 kernel/signal.c:2399
ptrace_report_syscall include/linux/ptrace.h:411 [inline]
ptrace_report_syscall_exit include/linux/ptrace.h:473 [inline]
syscall_exit_work kernel/entry/common.c:251 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare kernel/entry/common.c:278 [inline]
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:283 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x15c/0x280 kernel/entry/common.c:296
do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:88
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
The root cause is:
- do_sys_open
- f2fs_lookup
- __f2fs_find_entry
- f2fs_i_depth_write
- f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync
- f2fs_dirty_inode
- set_inode_flag(inode, FI_DIRTY_INODE)
- umount
- kill_f2fs_super
- kill_block_super
- generic_shutdown_super
- sync_filesystem
: sb is readonly, skip sync_filesystem()
- evict_inodes
- iput
- f2fs_evict_inode
- f2fs_bug_on(sbi, is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_DIRTY_INODE))
: trigger kernel panic
When we try to repair i_current_depth in readonly filesystem, let's
skip dirty inode to avoid panic in later f2fs_evict_inode().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: fsl: fsl_qmc_audio: Check devm_kasprintf() returned value
devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure but this returned
value is not checked.
Fix this lack and check the returned value.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk
Fixed array out-of-bounds issues caused by sprintf
by replacing it with snprintf for safer data copying,
ensuring the destination buffer is not overflowed.
Below is the stack trace I encountered during the actual issue:
[ 66.575408s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,4]Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector:
Kernel stack is corrupted in: do_hardware_base_addr+0xcc/0xd0 [parport]
[ 66.575408s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,5]CPU: 4 PID: 5118 Comm:
QThread Tainted: G S W O 5.10.97-arm64-desktop #7100.57021.2
[ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,6]TGID: 5087 Comm: EFileApp
[ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,7]Hardware name: HUAWEI HUAWEI QingYun
PGUX-W515x-B081/SP1PANGUXM, BIOS 1.00.07 04/29/2024
[ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,8]Call trace:
[ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,9] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c0
[ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,0] show_stack+0x14/0x20
[ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,1] dump_stack+0xd4/0x10c
[ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,2] panic+0x1d8/0x3bc
[ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,3] __stack_chk_fail+0x2c/0x38
[ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,4] do_hardware_base_addr+0xcc/0xd0 [parport]
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI/DPC: Fix use-after-free on concurrent DPC and hot-removal
Keith reports a use-after-free when a DPC event occurs concurrently to
hot-removal of the same portion of the hierarchy:
The dpc_handler() awaits readiness of the secondary bus below the
Downstream Port where the DPC event occurred. To do so, it polls the
config space of the first child device on the secondary bus. If that
child device is concurrently removed, accesses to its struct pci_dev
cause the kernel to oops.
That's because pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() neglects to hold a
reference on the child device. Before v6.3, the function was only
called on resume from system sleep or on runtime resume. Holding a
reference wasn't necessary back then because the pciehp IRQ thread
could never run concurrently. (On resume from system sleep, IRQs are
not enabled until after the resume_noirq phase. And runtime resume is
always awaited before a PCI device is removed.)
However starting with v6.3, pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() is also
called on a DPC event. Commit 53b54ad074de ("PCI/DPC: Await readiness
of secondary bus after reset"), which introduced that, failed to
appreciate that pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() now needs to hold a
reference on the child device because dpc_handler() and pciehp may
indeed run concurrently. The commit was backported to v5.10+ stable
kernels, so that's the oldest one affected.
Add the missing reference acquisition.
Abridged stack trace:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000091400c0
CPU: 15 PID: 2464 Comm: irq/53-pcie-dpc 6.9.0
RIP: pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x17/0x50
pci_dev_wait()
pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus()
dpc_reset_link()
pcie_do_recovery()
dpc_handler()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path
Dan Carpenter reported a Smack static checker warning:
fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:1981 init_cifs()
error: we previously assumed 'serverclose_wq' could be null (see line 1895)
The patch which introduced the serverclose workqueue used the wrong
oredering in error paths in init_cifs() for freeing it on errors.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/gma500: fix null pointer dereference in psb_intel_lvds_get_modes
In psb_intel_lvds_get_modes(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is
assigned to mode, which will lead to a possible NULL pointer dereference
on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling
Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to
mtk_remove().
Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(),
eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call
mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev
was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer
dereference.
By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when
mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This
addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops
struct nexthop_grp contains two reserved fields that are not initialized by
nla_put_nh_group(), and carry garbage. This can be observed e.g. with
strace (edited for clarity):
# ip nexthop add id 1 dev lo
# ip nexthop add id 101 group 1
# strace -e recvmsg ip nexthop get id 101
...
recvmsg(... [{nla_len=12, nla_type=NHA_GROUP},
[{id=1, weight=0, resvd1=0x69, resvd2=0x67}]] ...) = 52
The fields are reserved and therefore not currently used. But as they are, they
leak kernel memory, and the fact they are not just zero complicates repurposing
of the fields for new ends. Initialize the full structure.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error
tipc_udp_addr2str() should return non-zero value if the UDP media
address is invalid. Otherwise, a buffer overflow access can occur in
tipc_media_addr_printf(). Fix this by returning 1 on an invalid UDP
media address.