Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.0 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty
By waiting at most 1 second for USR2_TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential
deadlock.
In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore
the transmitter state and optimistically try to continue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check
The standard PCIe configuration read-write interface is used to
access the configuration space of the peripheral PCIe devices
of the mips processor after the PCIe link surprise down, it can
generate kernel panic caused by "Data bus error". So it is
necessary to add PCIe link status check for system protection.
When the PCIe link is down or in training, assigning a value
of 0 to the configuration address can prevent read-write behavior
to the configuration space of peripheral PCIe devices, thereby
preventing kernel panic.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Avoid hw_desc array overrun in dw-axi-dmac
I have a use case where nr_buffers = 3 and in which each descriptor is composed by 3
segments, resulting in the DMA channel descs_allocated to be 9. Since axi_desc_put()
handles the hw_desc considering the descs_allocated, this scenario would result in a
kernel panic (hw_desc array will be overrun).
To fix this, the proposal is to add a new member to the axi_dma_desc structure,
where we keep the number of allocated hw_descs (axi_desc_alloc()) and use it in
axi_desc_put() to handle the hw_desc array correctly.
Additionally I propose to remove the axi_chan_start_first_queued() call after completing
the transfer, since it was identified that unbalance can occur (started descriptors can
be interrupted and transfer ignored due to DMA channel not being enabled).
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: remove clear SB_INLINECRYPT flag in default_options
In f2fs_remount, SB_INLINECRYPT flag will be clear and re-set.
If create new file or open file during this gap, these files
will not use inlinecrypt. Worse case, it may lead to data
corruption if wrappedkey_v0 is enable.
Thread A: Thread B:
-f2fs_remount -f2fs_file_open or f2fs_new_inode
-default_options
<- clear SB_INLINECRYPT flag
-fscrypt_select_encryption_impl
-parse_options
<- set SB_INLINECRYPT again
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock
ext4_xattr_set_entry() creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock
on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the
allocation locking (which acquires locks on other buffers) under the
buffer lock. This can even deadlock when the filesystem is corrupted and
e.g. quota file is setup to contain xattr block as data block. Move the
allocation of EA inode out of ext4_xattr_set_entry() into the callers.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size
plpar_hcall(), plpar_hcall9(), and related functions expect callers to
provide valid result buffers of certain minimum size. Currently this
is communicated only through comments in the code and the compiler has
no idea.
For example, if I write a bug like this:
long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE]; // should be PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE
plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf, ...);
This compiles with no diagnostics emitted, but likely results in stack
corruption at runtime when plpar_hcall9() stores results past the end
of the array. (To be clear this is a contrived example and I have not
found a real instance yet.)
To make this class of error less likely, we can use explicitly-sized
array parameters instead of pointers in the declarations for the hcall
APIs. When compiled with -Warray-bounds[1], the code above now
provokes a diagnostic like this:
error: array argument is too small;
is of size 32, callee requires at least 72 [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
60 | plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf,
| ^ ~~~~~~
[1] Enabled for LLVM builds but not GCC for now. See commit
0da6e5fd6c37 ("gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too") and
related changes.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE
Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONE_DEVICE
pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate page_ext at all
even if there's struct page around. One may reference
devm_memremap_pages().
When both ZONE_DEVICE and page-table-check enabled, then try to map some
dax memories, one can trigger kernel bug constantly now when the kernel
was trying to inject some pfn maps on the dax device:
kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:55!
While it's pretty legal to use set_pxx_at() for ZONE_DEVICE pages for page
fault resolutions, skip all the checks if page_ext doesn't even exist in
pgtable checker, which applies to ZONE_DEVICE but maybe more.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin()
Use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() to access kvm->last_boosted_vcpu to ensure the
loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the
compiler tears the stores, it's theoretically possible for KVM to attempt
to get a vCPU using an out-of-bounds index, e.g. if the write is split
into multiple 8-bit stores, and is paired with a 32-bit load on a VM with
257 vCPUs:
CPU0 CPU1
last_boosted_vcpu = 0xff;
(last_boosted_vcpu = 0x100)
last_boosted_vcpu[15:8] = 0x01;
i = (last_boosted_vcpu = 0x1ff)
last_boosted_vcpu[7:0] = 0x00;
vcpu = kvm->vcpu_array[0x1ff];
As detected by KCSAN:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kvm_vcpu_on_spin [kvm] / kvm_vcpu_on_spin [kvm]
write to 0xffffc90025a92344 of 4 bytes by task 4340 on cpu 16:
kvm_vcpu_on_spin (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4112) kvm
handle_pause (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:5929) kvm_intel
vmx_handle_exit (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:?
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6606) kvm_intel
vcpu_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11107 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11211) kvm
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:?) kvm
kvm_vcpu_ioctl (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:?) kvm
__se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:52 fs/ioctl.c:904 fs/ioctl.c:890)
__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:890)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
read to 0xffffc90025a92344 of 4 bytes by task 4342 on cpu 4:
kvm_vcpu_on_spin (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4069) kvm
handle_pause (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:5929) kvm_intel
vmx_handle_exit (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:?
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6606) kvm_intel
vcpu_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11107 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11211) kvm
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:?) kvm
kvm_vcpu_ioctl (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:?) kvm
__se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:52 fs/ioctl.c:904 fs/ioctl.c:890)
__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:890)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
value changed: 0x00000012 -> 0x00000000
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: do not leave a dangling sk pointer, when socket creation fails
It is possible to trigger a use-after-free by:
* attaching an fentry probe to __sock_release() and the probe calling the
bpf_get_socket_cookie() helper
* running traceroute -I 1.1.1.1 on a freshly booted VM
A KASAN enabled kernel will log something like below (decoded and stripped):
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888007110dd8 by task traceroute/299
CPU: 2 PID: 299 Comm: traceroute Tainted: G E 6.10.0-rc2+ #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117 (discriminator 1))
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:488)
? __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:603)
? __sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)
kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:183 mm/kasan/generic.c:189)
__sock_gen_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:15 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2583 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1611 net/core/sock_diag.c:29)
bpf_get_socket_ptr_cookie (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:94 ./include/linux/sock_diag.h:42 net/core/filter.c:5094 net/core/filter.c:5092)
bpf_prog_875642cf11f1d139___sock_release+0x6e/0x8e
bpf_trampoline_6442506592+0x47/0xaf
__sock_release (net/socket.c:652)
__sock_create (net/socket.c:1601)
...
Allocated by task 299 on cpu 2 at 78.328492s:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:68)
__kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:312 mm/kasan/common.c:338)
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof (mm/slub.c:3941 mm/slub.c:4000 mm/slub.c:4007)
sk_prot_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2075)
sk_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2134)
inet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:327 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)
__sock_create (net/socket.c:1572)
__sys_socket (net/socket.c:1660 net/socket.c:1644 net/socket.c:1706)
__x64_sys_socket (net/socket.c:1718)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Freed by task 299 on cpu 2 at 78.328502s:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:68)
kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:582)
poison_slab_object (mm/kasan/common.c:242)
__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:256)
kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:4437 mm/slub.c:4511)
__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2117 net/core/sock.c:2208)
inet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:397 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)
__sock_create (net/socket.c:1572)
__sys_socket (net/socket.c:1660 net/socket.c:1644 net/socket.c:1706)
__x64_sys_socket (net/socket.c:1718)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Fix this by clearing the struct socket reference in sk_common_release() to cover
all protocol families create functions, which may already attached the
reference to the sk object with sock_init_data().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() to allow iterating through the list and
deleting the entry in the iteration process. The descriptor is freed via
idxd_desc_complete() and there's a slight chance may cause issue for
the list iterator when the descriptor is reused by another thread
without it being deleted from the list.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-12