Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.21.6 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations
Some of the fp/vmx code in sstep.c assume a certain maximum size for the
instructions being emulated. The size of those operations however is
determined separately in analyse_instr().
Add a check to validate the assumption on the maximum size of the
operations, so as to prevent any unintended kernel stack corruption.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful
by checking the pointer validity.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in diNewExt
[Syz report]
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2360:2
index -878706688 is out of range for type 'struct iagctl[128]'
CPU: 1 PID: 5065 Comm: syz-executor282 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-syzkaller-00009-gbee0e7762ad2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/10/2023
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2d0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:217 [inline]
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x11c/0x150 lib/ubsan.c:348
diNewExt+0x3cf3/0x4000 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2360
diAllocExt fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1949 [inline]
diAllocAG+0xbe8/0x1e50 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1666
diAlloc+0x1d3/0x1760 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1587
ialloc+0x8f/0x900 fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c:56
jfs_mkdir+0x1c5/0xb90 fs/jfs/namei.c:225
vfs_mkdir+0x2f1/0x4b0 fs/namei.c:4106
do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4129
__do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4149 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4147 [inline]
__x64_sys_mkdir+0x6e/0x80 fs/namei.c:4147
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
RIP: 0033:0x7fcb7e6a0b57
Code: ff ff 77 07 31 c0 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 c7 c2 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 53 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd83023038 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: 00007fcb7e6a0b57
RDX: 00000000000a1020 RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 0000000020000140
RBP: 0000000020000140 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000286 R12: 00007ffd830230d0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[Analysis]
When the agstart is too large, it can cause agno overflow.
[Fix]
After obtaining agno, if the value is invalid, exit the subsequent process.
Modified the test from agno > MAXAG to agno >= MAXAG based on linux-next
report by kernel test robot (Dan Carpenter).
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix uaf in jfs_evict_inode
When the execution of diMount(ipimap) fails, the object ipimap that has been
released may be accessed in diFreeSpecial(). Asynchronous ipimap release occurs
when rcu_core() calls jfs_free_node().
Therefore, when diMount(ipimap) fails, sbi->ipimap should not be initialized as
ipimap.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAdjTree
Currently there is a bound check missing in the dbAdjTree while
accessing the dmt_stree. To add the required check added the bool is_ctl
which is required to determine the size as suggest in the following
commit.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/f9475918-2186-49b8-b801-6f0f9e75f4fa@oracle.com/
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in dtSearch
Currently while searching for current page in the sorted entry table
of the page there is a out of bound access. Added a bound check to fix
the error.
Dave:
Set return code to -EIO
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: Fix potential array-index-out-of-bounds read in ath9k_htc_txstatus()
Fix an array-index-out-of-bounds read in ath9k_htc_txstatus(). The bug
occurs when txs->cnt, data from a URB provided by a USB device, is
bigger than the size of the array txs->txstatus, which is
HTC_MAX_TX_STATUS. WARN_ON() already checks it, but there is no bug
handling code after the check. Make the function return if that is the
case.
Found by a modified version of syzkaller.
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in htc_drv_txrx.c
index 13 is out of range for type '__wmi_event_txstatus [12]'
Call Trace:
ath9k_htc_txstatus
ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet
tasklet_action_common
__do_softirq
irq_exit_rxu
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rt2x00: restart beacon queue when hardware reset
When a hardware reset is triggered, all registers are reset, so all
queues are forced to stop in hardware interface. However, mac80211
will not automatically stop the queue. If we don't manually stop the
beacon queue, the queue will be deadlocked and unable to start again.
This patch fixes the issue where Apple devices cannot connect to the
AP after calling ieee80211_restart_hw().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see
if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check
evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of
bounds evaluation when registering empty directories.
The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size
1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify
a permanently empty register.
Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for
permanent emptiness.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: fix setting of fpc register
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_fpu() allows to set the floating point control
(fpc) register of a guest cpu. The new value is tested for validity by
temporarily loading it into the fpc register.
This may lead to corruption of the fpc register of the host process:
if an interrupt happens while the value is temporarily loaded into the fpc
register, and within interrupt context floating point or vector registers
are used, the current fp/vx registers are saved with save_fpu_regs()
assuming they belong to user space and will be loaded into fp/vx registers
when returning to user space.
test_fp_ctl() restores the original user space / host process fpc register
value, however it will be discarded, when returning to user space.
In result the host process will incorrectly continue to run with the value
that was supposed to be used for a guest cpu.
Fix this by simply removing the test. There is another test right before
the SIE context is entered which will handles invalid values.
This results in a change of behaviour: invalid values will now be accepted
instead of that the ioctl fails with -EINVAL. This seems to be acceptable,
given that this interface is most likely not used anymore, and this is in
addition the same behaviour implemented with the memory mapped interface
(replace invalid values with zero) - see sync_regs() in kvm-s390.c.
CVSS Score
4.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-06