Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.34 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Fix link down processing to address NULL pointer dereference
If an FC link down transition while PLOGIs are outstanding to fabric well
known addresses, outstanding ABTS requests may result in a NULL pointer
dereference. Driver unload requests may hang with repeated "2878" log
messages.
The Link down processing results in ABTS requests for outstanding ELS
requests. The Abort WQEs are sent for the ELSs before the driver had set
the link state to down. Thus the driver is sending the Abort with the
expectation that an ABTS will be sent on the wire. The Abort request is
stalled waiting for the link to come up. In some conditions the driver may
auto-complete the ELSs thus if the link does come up, the Abort completions
may reference an invalid structure.
Fix by ensuring that Abort set the flag to avoid link traffic if issued due
to conditions where the link failed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: tty_buffer: Fix the softlockup issue in flush_to_ldisc
When running ltp testcase(ltp/testcases/kernel/pty/pty04.c) with arm64, there is a soft lockup,
which look like this one:
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ec
show_stack+0x24/0x30
dump_stack+0xd0/0x128
panic+0x15c/0x374
watchdog_timer_fn+0x2b8/0x304
__run_hrtimer+0x88/0x2c0
__hrtimer_run_queues+0xa4/0x120
hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x270
arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x50
handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x94/0x220
__handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf0
gic_handle_irq+0x84/0xfc
el1_irq+0xc8/0x180
slip_unesc+0x80/0x214 [slip]
tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x64/0x80
tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x50/0x90
flush_to_ldisc+0xbc/0x110
process_one_work+0x1d4/0x4b0
worker_thread+0x180/0x430
kthread+0x11c/0x120
In the testcase pty04, The first process call the write syscall to send
data to the pty master. At the same time, the workqueue will do the
flush_to_ldisc to pop data in a loop until there is no more data left.
When the sender and workqueue running in different core, the sender sends
data fastly in full time which will result in workqueue doing work in loop
for a long time and occuring softlockup in flush_to_ldisc with kernel
configured without preempt. So I add need_resched check and cond_resched
in the flush_to_ldisc loop to avoid it.
CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8998: Fix CPU/L2 idle state latency and residency
The entry/exit latency and minimum residency in state for the idle
states of MSM8998 were ..bad: first of all, for all of them the
timings were written for CPU sleep but the min-residency-us param
was miscalculated (supposedly, while porting this from downstream);
Then, the power collapse states are setting PC on both the CPU
cluster *and* the L2 cache, which have different timings: in the
specific case of L2 the times are higher so these ones should be
taken into account instead of the CPU ones.
This parameter misconfiguration was not giving particular issues
because on MSM8998 there was no CPU scaling at all, so cluster/L2
power collapse was rarely (if ever) hit.
When CPU scaling is enabled, though, the wrong timings will produce
SoC unstability shown to the user as random, apparently error-less,
sudden reboots and/or lockups.
This set of parameters are stabilizing the SoC when CPU scaling is
ON and when power collapse is frequently hit.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: scsi_debug: Fix out-of-bound read in resp_readcap16()
The following warning was observed running syzkaller:
[ 3813.830724] sg_write: data in/out 65466/242 bytes for SCSI command 0x9e-- guessing data in;
[ 3813.830724] program syz-executor not setting count and/or reply_len properly
[ 3813.836956] ==================================================================
[ 3813.839465] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in sg_copy_buffer+0x157/0x1e0
[ 3813.841773] Read of size 4096 at addr ffff8883cf80f540 by task syz-executor/1549
[ 3813.846612] Call Trace:
[ 3813.846995] dump_stack+0x108/0x15f
[ 3813.847524] print_address_description+0xa5/0x372
[ 3813.848243] kasan_report.cold+0x236/0x2a8
[ 3813.849439] check_memory_region+0x240/0x270
[ 3813.850094] memcpy+0x30/0x80
[ 3813.850553] sg_copy_buffer+0x157/0x1e0
[ 3813.853032] sg_copy_from_buffer+0x13/0x20
[ 3813.853660] fill_from_dev_buffer+0x135/0x370
[ 3813.854329] resp_readcap16+0x1ac/0x280
[ 3813.856917] schedule_resp+0x41f/0x1630
[ 3813.858203] scsi_debug_queuecommand+0xb32/0x17e0
[ 3813.862699] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x330/0x950
[ 3813.863329] scsi_request_fn+0xd8e/0x1710
[ 3813.863946] __blk_run_queue+0x10b/0x230
[ 3813.864544] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x1d8/0x400
[ 3813.865220] sg_common_write.isra.0+0xe61/0x2420
[ 3813.871637] sg_write+0x6c8/0xef0
[ 3813.878853] __vfs_write+0xe4/0x800
[ 3813.883487] vfs_write+0x17b/0x530
[ 3813.884008] ksys_write+0x103/0x270
[ 3813.886268] __x64_sys_write+0x77/0xc0
[ 3813.886841] do_syscall_64+0x106/0x360
[ 3813.887415] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
This issue can be reproduced with the following syzkaller log:
r0 = openat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000040)='./file0\x00', 0x26e1, 0x0)
r1 = syz_open_procfs(0xffffffffffffffff, &(0x7f0000000000)='fd/3\x00')
open_by_handle_at(r1, &(0x7f00000003c0)=ANY=[@ANYRESHEX], 0x602000)
r2 = syz_open_dev$sg(&(0x7f0000000000), 0x0, 0x40782)
write$binfmt_aout(r2, &(0x7f0000000340)=ANY=[@ANYBLOB="00000000deff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000047f007af9e107a41ec395f1bded7be24277a1501ff6196a83366f4e6362bc0ff2b247f68a972989b094b2da4fb3607fcf611a22dd04310d28c75039d"], 0x126)
In resp_readcap16() we get "int alloc_len" value -1104926854, and then pass
the huge arr_len to fill_from_dev_buffer(), but arr is only 32 bytes. This
leads to OOB in sg_copy_buffer().
To solve this issue, define alloc_len as u32.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: pm80xx: Fix memory leak during rmmod
Driver failed to release all memory allocated. This would lead to memory
leak during driver removal.
Properly free memory when the module is removed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
When building with CONFIG_XEN_PV=y, .text symbols are emitted into
the .notes section so that Xen can find the "startup_xen" entry point.
This information is used prior to booting the kernel, so relocations
are not useful. In fact, performing relocations against the .notes
section means that the KASLR base is exposed since /sys/kernel/notes
is world-readable.
To avoid leaking the KASLR base without breaking unprivileged tools that
are expecting to read /sys/kernel/notes, skip performing relocations in
the .notes section. The values readable in .notes are then identical to
those found in System.map.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: validate payload size in ipc response
If installing malicious ksmbd-tools, ksmbd.mountd can return invalid ipc
response to ksmbd kernel server. ksmbd should validate payload size of
ipc response from ksmbd.mountd to avoid memory overrun or
slab-out-of-bounds. This patch validate 3 ipc response that has payload.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth
syzkaller triggered following kasan splat:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __skb_flow_dissect+0x19d1/0x7a50 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1170
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88812fb4000e by task syz-executor183/5191
[..]
kasan_report+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:588
__skb_flow_dissect+0x19d1/0x7a50 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1170
skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys include/linux/skbuff.h:1514 [inline]
___skb_get_hash net/core/flow_dissector.c:1791 [inline]
__skb_get_hash+0xc7/0x540 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1856
skb_get_hash include/linux/skbuff.h:1556 [inline]
ip_tunnel_xmit+0x1855/0x33c0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:748
ipip_tunnel_xmit+0x3cc/0x4e0 net/ipv4/ipip.c:308
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13d/0x6d0 net/core/dev.c:3564
__dev_queue_xmit+0x7c1/0x3d60 net/core/dev.c:4349
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
neigh_connected_output+0x42c/0x5d0 net/core/neighbour.c:1592
...
ip_finish_output2+0x833/0x2550 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:235
ip_finish_output+0x31/0x310 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:323
..
iptunnel_xmit+0x5b4/0x9b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:82
ip_tunnel_xmit+0x1dbc/0x33c0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:831
ipgre_xmit+0x4a1/0x980 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:665
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13d/0x6d0 net/core/dev.c:3564
...
The splat occurs because skb->data points past skb->head allocated area.
This is because neigh layer does:
__skb_pull(skb, skb_network_offset(skb));
... but skb_network_offset() returns a negative offset and __skb_pull()
arg is unsigned. IOW, we skb->data gets "adjusted" by a huge value.
The negative value is returned because skb->head and skb->data distance is
more than 64k and skb->network_header (u16) has wrapped around.
The bug is in the ip_tunnel infrastructure, which can cause
dev->needed_headroom to increment ad infinitum.
The syzkaller reproducer consists of packets getting routed via a gre
tunnel, and route of gre encapsulated packets pointing at another (ipip)
tunnel. The ipip encapsulation finds gre0 as next output device.
This results in the following pattern:
1). First packet is to be sent out via gre0.
Route lookup found an output device, ipip0.
2).
ip_tunnel_xmit for gre0 bumps gre0->needed_headroom based on the future
output device, rt.dev->needed_headroom (ipip0).
3).
ip output / start_xmit moves skb on to ipip0. which runs the same
code path again (xmit recursion).
4).
Routing step for the post-gre0-encap packet finds gre0 as output device
to use for ipip0 encapsulated packet.
tunl0->needed_headroom is then incremented based on the (already bumped)
gre0 device headroom.
This repeats for every future packet:
gre0->needed_headroom gets inflated because previous packets' ipip0 step
incremented rt->dev (gre0) headroom, and ipip0 incremented because gre0
needed_headroom was increased.
For each subsequent packet, gre/ipip0->needed_headroom grows until
post-expand-head reallocations result in a skb->head/data distance of
more than 64k.
Once that happens, skb->network_header (u16) wraps around when
pskb_expand_head tries to make sure that skb_network_offset() is unchanged
after the headroom expansion/reallocation.
After this skb_network_offset(skb) returns a different (and negative)
result post headroom expansion.
The next trip to neigh layer (or anything else that would __skb_pull the
network header) makes skb->data point to a memory location outside
skb->head area.
v2: Cap the needed_headroom update to an arbitarily chosen upperlimit to
prevent perpetual increase instead of dropping the headroom increment
completely.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-04-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: dev-replace: properly validate device names
There's a syzbot report that device name buffers passed to device
replace are not properly checked for string termination which could lead
to a read out of bounds in getname_kernel().
Add a helper that validates both source and target device name buffers.
For devid as the source initialize the buffer to empty string in case
something tries to read it later.
This was originally analyzed and fixed in a different way by Edward Adam
Davis (see links).
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal()
Places the logic for checking if the group's block bitmap is corrupt under
the protection of the group lock to avoid allocating blocks from the group
with a corrupted block bitmap.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03