Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In August 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: change DMA direction while mapping reinjected packets
For fragmented packets, ath12k reassembles each fragment as a normal
packet and then reinjects it into HW ring. In this case, the DMA
direction should be DMA_TO_DEVICE, not DMA_FROM_DEVICE. Otherwise,
an invalid payload may be reinjected into the HW and
subsequently delivered to the host.
Given that arbitrary memory can be allocated to the skb buffer,
knowledge about the data contained in the reinjected buffer is lacking.
Consequently, there’s a risk of private information being leaked.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.1.1-00209-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage
When opening a file for exec via do_filp_open(), permission checking is
done against the file's metadata at that moment, and on success, a file
pointer is passed back. Much later in the execve() code path, the file
metadata (specifically mode, uid, and gid) is used to determine if/how
to set the uid and gid. However, those values may have changed since the
permissions check, meaning the execution may gain unintended privileges.
For example, if a file could change permissions from executable and not
set-id:
---------x 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target
to set-id and non-executable:
---S------ 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target
it is possible to gain root privileges when execution should have been
disallowed.
While this race condition is rare in real-world scenarios, it has been
observed (and proven exploitable) when package managers are updating
the setuid bits of installed programs. Such files start with being
world-executable but then are adjusted to be group-exec with a set-uid
bit. For example, "chmod o-x,u+s target" makes "target" executable only
by uid "root" and gid "cdrom", while also becoming setuid-root:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target
becomes:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target
But racing the chmod means users without group "cdrom" membership can
get the permission to execute "target" just before the chmod, and when
the chmod finishes, the exec reaches brpm_fill_uid(), and performs the
setuid to root, violating the expressed authorization of "only cdrom
group members can setuid to root".
Re-check that we still have execute permissions in case the metadata
has changed. It would be better to keep a copy from the perm-check time,
but until we can do that refactoring, the least-bad option is to do a
full inode_permission() call (under inode lock). It is understood that
this is safe against dead-locks, but hardly optimal.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release
The perf pending task work is never waited upon the matching event
release. In the case of a child event, released via free_event()
directly, this can potentially result in a leaked event, such as in the
following scenario that doesn't even require a weak IRQ work
implementation to trigger:
schedule()
prepare_task_switch()
=======> <NMI>
perf_event_overflow()
event->pending_sigtrap = ...
irq_work_queue(&event->pending_irq)
<======= </NMI>
perf_event_task_sched_out()
event_sched_out()
event->pending_sigtrap = 0;
atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount)
task_work_add(&event->pending_task)
finish_lock_switch()
=======> <IRQ>
perf_pending_irq()
//do nothing, rely on pending task work
<======= </IRQ>
begin_new_exec()
perf_event_exit_task()
perf_event_exit_event()
// If is child event
free_event()
WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1)
// event is leaked
Similar scenarios can also happen with perf_event_remove_on_exec() or
simply against concurrent perf_event_release().
Fix this with synchonizing against the possibly remaining pending task
work while freeing the event, just like is done with remaining pending
IRQ work. This means that the pending task callback neither need nor
should hold a reference to the event, preventing it from ever beeing
freed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf: Fix event leak upon exit
When a task is scheduled out, pending sigtrap deliveries are deferred
to the target task upon resume to userspace via task_work.
However failures while adding an event's callback to the task_work
engine are ignored. And since the last call for events exit happen
after task work is eventually closed, there is a small window during
which pending sigtrap can be queued though ignored, leaking the event
refcount addition such as in the following scenario:
TASK A
-----
do_exit()
exit_task_work(tsk);
<IRQ>
perf_event_overflow()
event->pending_sigtrap = pending_id;
irq_work_queue(&event->pending_irq);
</IRQ>
=========> PREEMPTION: TASK A -> TASK B
event_sched_out()
event->pending_sigtrap = 0;
atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount)
// FAILS: task work has exited
task_work_add(&event->pending_task)
[...]
<IRQ WORK>
perf_pending_irq()
// early return: event->oncpu = -1
</IRQ WORK>
[...]
=========> TASK B -> TASK A
perf_event_exit_task(tsk)
perf_event_exit_event()
free_event()
WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1)
// leak event due to unexpected refcount == 2
As a result the event is never released while the task exits.
Fix this with appropriate task_work_add()'s error handling.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()
It will cause memory leakage when use driver API devm_free_percpu()
to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu(), fixed by using
devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within devm_free_percpu().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/hns: Fix soft lockup under heavy CEQE load
CEQEs are handled in interrupt handler currently. This may cause the
CPU core staying in interrupt context too long and lead to soft lockup
under heavy load.
Handle CEQEs in BH workqueue and set an upper limit for the number of
CEQE handled by a single call of work handler.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow
There are two issues around seqpacket_allow:
1. seqpacket_allow is not initialized when socket is
created. Thus if features are never set, it will be
read uninitialized.
2. if VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET is set and then cleared,
then seqpacket_allow will not be cleared appropriately
(existing apps I know about don't usually do this but
it's legal and there's no way to be sure no one relies
on this).
To fix:
- initialize seqpacket_allow after allocation
- set it unconditionally in set_features
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: ccp - Fix null pointer dereference in __sev_snp_shutdown_locked
Fix a null pointer dereference induced by DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
Return from __sev_snp_shutdown_locked() if the psp_device or the
sev_device structs are not initialized. Without the fix, the driver will
produce the following splat:
ccp 0000:55:00.5: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
ccp 0000:55:00.5: sev enabled
ccp 0000:55:00.5: psp enabled
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
CPU: 262 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1+ #29
RIP: 0010:__sev_snp_shutdown_locked+0x2e/0x150
Code: 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 83 ec 10 41 89 f7 49 89 fe 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 d8 48 8b 05 6a 5a 7f 06 <4c> 8b a0 f0 00 00 00 41 0f b6 9c 24 a2 00 00 00 48 83 fb 02 0f 83
RSP: 0018:ffffb2ea4014b7b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9e4acd2e0a28 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb2ea4014b808
RBP: ffffb2ea4014b7e8 R08: 0000000000000106 R09: 000000000003d9c0
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffffa39ff070 R12: ffff9e49d40590c8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffb2ea4014b808 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9e58b1e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000000f0 CR3: 0000000418a3e001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body+0x6f/0xb0
? __die+0xcc/0xf0
? page_fault_oops+0x330/0x3a0
? save_trace+0x2a5/0x360
? do_user_addr_fault+0x583/0x630
? exc_page_fault+0x81/0x120
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30
? __sev_snp_shutdown_locked+0x2e/0x150
__sev_firmware_shutdown+0x349/0x5b0
? pm_runtime_barrier+0x66/0xe0
sev_dev_destroy+0x34/0xb0
psp_dev_destroy+0x27/0x60
sp_destroy+0x39/0x90
sp_pci_remove+0x22/0x60
pci_device_remove+0x4e/0x110
really_probe+0x271/0x4e0
__driver_probe_device+0x8f/0x160
driver_probe_device+0x24/0x120
__driver_attach+0xc7/0x280
? driver_attach+0x30/0x30
bus_for_each_dev+0x10d/0x130
driver_attach+0x22/0x30
bus_add_driver+0x171/0x2b0
? unaccepted_memory_init_kdump+0x20/0x20
driver_register+0x67/0x100
__pci_register_driver+0x83/0x90
sp_pci_init+0x22/0x30
sp_mod_init+0x13/0x30
do_one_initcall+0xb8/0x290
? sched_clock_noinstr+0xd/0x10
? local_clock_noinstr+0x3e/0x100
? stack_depot_save_flags+0x21e/0x6a0
? local_clock+0x1c/0x60
? stack_depot_save_flags+0x21e/0x6a0
? sched_clock_noinstr+0xd/0x10
? local_clock_noinstr+0x3e/0x100
? __lock_acquire+0xd90/0xe30
? sched_clock_noinstr+0xd/0x10
? local_clock_noinstr+0x3e/0x100
? __create_object+0x66/0x100
? local_clock+0x1c/0x60
? __create_object+0x66/0x100
? parameq+0x1b/0x90
? parse_one+0x6d/0x1d0
? parse_args+0xd7/0x1f0
? do_initcall_level+0x180/0x180
do_initcall_level+0xb0/0x180
do_initcalls+0x60/0xa0
? kernel_init+0x1f/0x1d0
do_basic_setup+0x41/0x50
kernel_init_freeable+0x1ac/0x230
? rest_init+0x1f0/0x1f0
kernel_init+0x1f/0x1d0
? rest_init+0x1f0/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x3d/0x50
? rest_init+0x1f0/0x1f0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 00000000000000f0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__sev_snp_shutdown_locked+0x2e/0x150
Code: 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 83 ec 10 41 89 f7 49 89 fe 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 d8 48 8b 05 6a 5a 7f 06 <4c> 8b a0 f0 00 00 00 41 0f b6 9c 24 a2 00 00 00 48 83 fb 02 0f 83
RSP: 0018:ffffb2ea4014b7b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9e4acd2e0a28 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: endpoint: Clean up error handling in vpci_scan_bus()
Smatch complains about inconsistent NULL checking in vpci_scan_bus():
drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c:1024 vpci_scan_bus() error: we previously assumed 'vpci_bus' could be null (see line 1021)
Instead of printing an error message and then crashing we should return
an error code and clean up.
Also the NULL check is reversed so it prints an error for success
instead of failure.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: rcar: Demote WARN() to dev_warn_ratelimited() in rcar_pcie_wakeup()
Avoid large backtrace, it is sufficient to warn the user that there has
been a link problem. Either the link has failed and the system is in need
of maintenance, or the link continues to work and user has been informed.
The message from the warning can be looked up in the sources.
This makes an actual link issue less verbose.
First of all, this controller has a limitation in that the controller
driver has to assist the hardware with transition to L1 link state by
writing L1IATN to PMCTRL register, the L1 and L0 link state switching
is not fully automatic on this controller.
In case of an ASMedia ASM1062 PCIe SATA controller which does not support
ASPM, on entry to suspend or during platform pm_test, the SATA controller
enters D3hot state and the link enters L1 state. If the SATA controller
wakes up before rcar_pcie_wakeup() was called and returns to D0, the link
returns to L0 before the controller driver even started its transition to
L1 link state. At this point, the SATA controller did send an PM_ENTER_L1
DLLP to the PCIe controller and the PCIe controller received it, and the
PCIe controller did set PMSR PMEL1RX bit.
Once rcar_pcie_wakeup() is called, if the link is already back in L0 state
and PMEL1RX bit is set, the controller driver has no way to determine if
it should perform the link transition to L1 state, or treat the link as if
it is in L0 state. Currently the driver attempts to perform the transition
to L1 link state unconditionally, which in this specific case fails with a
PMSR L1FAEG poll timeout, however the link still works as it is already
back in L0 state.
Reduce this warning verbosity. In case the link is really broken, the
rcar_pcie_config_access() would fail, otherwise it will succeed and any
system with this controller and ASM1062 can suspend without generating
a backtrace.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-21