Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.16.58 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix UAF ncm object at re-bind after usb ep transport error
When ncm function is working and then stop usb0 interface for link down,
eth_stop() is called. At this piont, accidentally if usb transport error
should happen in usb_ep_enable(), 'in_ep' and/or 'out_ep' may not be enabled.
After that, ncm_disable() is called to disable for ncm unbind
but gether_disconnect() is never called since 'in_ep' is not enabled.
As the result, ncm object is released in ncm unbind
but 'dev->port_usb' associated to 'ncm->port' is not NULL.
And when ncm bind again to recover netdev, ncm object is reallocated
but usb0 interface is already associated to previous released ncm object.
Therefore, once usb0 interface is up and eth_start_xmit() is called,
released ncm object is dereferrenced and it might cause use-after-free memory.
[function unlink via configfs]
usb0: eth_stop dev->port_usb=ffffff9b179c3200
--> error happens in usb_ep_enable().
NCM: ncm_disable: ncm=ffffff9b179c3200
--> no gether_disconnect() since ncm->port.in_ep->enabled is false.
NCM: ncm_unbind: ncm unbind ncm=ffffff9b179c3200
NCM: ncm_free: ncm free ncm=ffffff9b179c3200 <-- released ncm
[function link via configfs]
NCM: ncm_alloc: ncm alloc ncm=ffffff9ac4f8a000
NCM: ncm_bind: ncm bind ncm=ffffff9ac4f8a000
NCM: ncm_set_alt: ncm=ffffff9ac4f8a000 alt=0
usb0: eth_open dev->port_usb=ffffff9b179c3200 <-- previous released ncm
usb0: eth_start dev->port_usb=ffffff9b179c3200 <--
eth_start_xmit()
--> dev->wrap()
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dead00000000014f
This patch addresses the issue by checking if 'ncm->netdev' is not NULL at
ncm_disable() to call gether_disconnect() to deassociate 'dev->port_usb'.
It's more reasonable to check 'ncm->netdev' to call gether_connect/disconnect
rather than check 'ncm->port.in_ep->enabled' since it might not be enabled
but the gether connection might be established.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial/pmac_zilog: Remove flawed mitigation for rx irq flood
The mitigation was intended to stop the irq completely. That may be
better than a hard lock-up but it turns out that you get a crash anyway
if you're using pmac_zilog as a serial console:
ttyPZ0: pmz: rx irq flood !
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0
That's because the pr_err() call in pmz_receive_chars() results in
pmz_console_write() attempting to lock a spinlock already locked in
pmz_interrupt(). With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y, this produces a fatal
BUG splat. The spinlock in question is the one in struct uart_port.
Even when it's not fatal, the serial port rx function ceases to work.
Also, the iteration limit doesn't play nicely with QEMU, as can be
seen in the bug report linked below.
A web search for other reports of the error message "pmz: rx irq flood"
didn't produce anything. So I don't think this code is needed any more.
Remove it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation
When trying to instantiate a max14830 device from userspace:
echo max14830 0x60 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device
we get the following error:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address...
...
Call trace:
max310x_i2c_probe+0x48/0x170 [max310x]
i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x2a0
...
Add check for validity of devtype to prevent the error, and abort probe
with a meaningful error message.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix OOB in nilfs_set_de_type
The size of the nilfs_type_by_mode array in the fs/nilfs2/dir.c file is
defined as "S_IFMT >> S_SHIFT", but the nilfs_set_de_type() function,
which uses this array, specifies the index to read from the array in the
same way as "(mode & S_IFMT) >> S_SHIFT".
static void nilfs_set_de_type(struct nilfs_dir_entry *de, struct inode
*inode)
{
umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
de->file_type = nilfs_type_by_mode[(mode & S_IFMT)>>S_SHIFT]; // oob
}
However, when the index is determined this way, an out-of-bounds (OOB)
error occurs by referring to an index that is 1 larger than the array size
when the condition "mode & S_IFMT == S_IFMT" is satisfied. Therefore, a
patch to resize the nilfs_type_by_mode array should be applied to prevent
OOB errors.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero
Syskiller has produced an out of bounds access in fill_meta_index().
That out of bounds access is ultimately caused because the inode
has an inode number with the invalid value of zero, which was not checked.
The reason this causes the out of bounds access is due to following
sequence of events:
1. Fill_meta_index() is called to allocate (via empty_meta_index())
and fill a metadata index. It however suffers a data read error
and aborts, invalidating the newly returned empty metadata index.
It does this by setting the inode number of the index to zero,
which means unused (zero is not a valid inode number).
2. When fill_meta_index() is subsequently called again on another
read operation, locate_meta_index() returns the previous index
because it matches the inode number of 0. Because this index
has been returned it is expected to have been filled, and because
it hasn't been, an out of bounds access is performed.
This patch adds a sanity check which checks that the inode number
is not zero when the inode is created and returns -EINVAL if it is.
[phillip@squashfs.org.uk: whitespace fix]
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed
Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its
completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed.
KVM must ensure that none of its workqueue callbacks is running when the
last reference to the KVM _module_ is put. Gifting a reference to the
associated VM prevents the workqueue callback from dereferencing freed
vCPU/VM memory, but does not prevent the KVM module from being unloaded
before the callback completes.
Drop the misguided VM refcount gifting, as calling kvm_put_kvm() from
async_pf_execute() if kvm_put_kvm() flushes the async #PF workqueue will
result in deadlock. async_pf_execute() can't return until kvm_put_kvm()
finishes, and kvm_put_kvm() can't return until async_pf_execute() finishes:
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 251 at virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1435 kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
CPU: 8 PID: 251 Comm: kworker/8:1 Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
RIP: 0010:kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
kthread+0xba/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
INFO: task kworker/8:1:251 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/8:1 state:D stack:0 pid:251 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x33f/0xa40
schedule+0x53/0xc0
schedule_timeout+0x12a/0x140
__wait_for_common+0x8d/0x1d0
__flush_work.isra.0+0x19f/0x2c0
kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0x129/0x190 [kvm]
kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x1b0 [kvm]
kvm_put_kvm+0x1c1/0x320 [kvm]
async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
kthread+0xba/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
If kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue() actually flushes the workqueue,
then there's no need to gift async_pf_execute() a reference because all
invocations of async_pf_execute() will be forced to complete before the
vCPU and its VM are destroyed/freed. And that in turn fixes the module
unloading bug as __fput() won't do module_put() on the last vCPU reference
until the vCPU has been freed, e.g. if closing the vCPU file also puts the
last reference to the KVM module.
Note that kvm_check_async_pf_completion() may also take the work item off
the completion queue and so also needs to flush the work queue, as the
work will not be seen by kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(). Waiting
on the workqueue could theoretically delay a vCPU due to waiting for the
work to complete, but that's a very, very small chance, and likely a very
small delay. kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() unconditionally makes a
new request, i.e. will effectively delay entering the guest, so the
remaining work is really just:
trace_kvm_async_pf_completed(addr, cr2_or_gpa);
__kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
mmput(mm);
and mmput() can't drop the last reference to the page tables if the vCPU is
still alive, i.e. the vCPU won't get stuck tearing down page tables.
Add a helper to do the flushing, specifically to deal with "wakeup all"
work items, as they aren't actually work items, i.e. are never placed in a
workqueue. Trying to flush a bogus workqueue entry rightly makes
__flush_work() complain (kudos to whoever added that sanity check).
Note, commit 5f6de5cbebee ("KVM: Prevent module exit until al
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles
When fat_encode_fh_nostale() encodes file handle without a parent it
stores only first 10 bytes of the file handle. However the length of the
file handle must be a multiple of 4 so the file handle is actually 12
bytes long and the last two bytes remain uninitialized. This is not
great at we potentially leak uninitialized information with the handle
to userspace. Properly initialize the full handle length.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: fix UAF in direct writes
In production we have been hitting the following warning consistently
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 1800359 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
Workqueue: nfsiod nfs_direct_write_schedule_work [nfs]
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x9f/0x130
? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
? report_bug+0xcc/0x150
? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x40
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
nfs_direct_write_schedule_work+0x237/0x250 [nfs]
process_one_work+0x12f/0x4a0
worker_thread+0x14e/0x3b0
? ZSTD_getCParams_internal+0x220/0x220
kthread+0xdc/0x120
? __btf_name_valid+0xa0/0xa0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
This is because we're completing the nfs_direct_request twice in a row.
The source of this is when we have our commit requests to submit, we
process them and send them off, and then in the completion path for the
commit requests we have
if (nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds))
nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq);
However since we're submitting asynchronous requests we sometimes have
one that completes before we submit the next one, so we end up calling
complete on the nfs_direct_request twice.
The only other place we use nfs_generic_commit_list() is in
__nfs_commit_inode, which wraps this call in a
nfs_commit_begin();
nfs_commit_end();
Which is a common pattern for this style of completion handling, one
that is also repeated in the direct code with get_dreq()/put_dreq()
calls around where we process events as well as in the completion paths.
Fix this by using the same pattern for the commit requests.
Before with my 200 node rocksdb stress running this warning would pop
every 10ish minutes. With my patch the stress test has been running for
several hours without popping.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del
mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without
following the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This
may lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the
list of keys in parallel with a key deletion:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0
mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0
ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690
sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20
dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60
__sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
Also, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by
mac802154_llsec_key_del():
unreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64):
comm "iwpan", pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de x.......".......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81dcfa62>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0
[<ffffffff81c43865>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0
[<ffffffff88968b09>] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0
[<ffffffff8896e41a>] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80
[<ffffffff8892adc6>] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0
[<ffffffff86ff293e>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0
[<ffffffff86ff46d1>] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0
[<ffffffff86fee7a9>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440
[<ffffffff86ff1d88>] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[<ffffffff86fec15c>] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820
[<ffffffff86fecd8b>] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60
[<ffffffff86b91b35>] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0
[<ffffffff86b9c3dd>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0
[<ffffffff86b9c65a>] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0
[<ffffffff88eadbf5>] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
[<ffffffff890000ea>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
Handle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function
mac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().
Note that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via
llsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a
list element). So it's safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list
entry after the RCU grace period elapses.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-raid456, md/raid456: fix a deadlock for dm-raid456 while io concurrent with reshape
For raid456, if reshape is still in progress, then IO across reshape
position will wait for reshape to make progress. However, for dm-raid,
in following cases reshape will never make progress hence IO will hang:
1) the array is read-only;
2) MD_RECOVERY_WAIT is set;
3) MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set;
After commit c467e97f079f ("md/raid6: use valid sector values to determine
if an I/O should wait on the reshape") fix the problem that IO across
reshape position doesn't wait for reshape, the dm-raid test
shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh start to hang:
[root@fedora ~]# cat /proc/979/stack
[<0>] wait_woken+0x7d/0x90
[<0>] raid5_make_request+0x929/0x1d70 [raid456]
[<0>] md_handle_request+0xc2/0x3b0 [md_mod]
[<0>] raid_map+0x2c/0x50 [dm_raid]
[<0>] __map_bio+0x251/0x380 [dm_mod]
[<0>] dm_submit_bio+0x1f0/0x760 [dm_mod]
[<0>] __submit_bio+0xc2/0x1c0
[<0>] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x17f/0x450
[<0>] submit_bio_noacct+0x2bc/0x780
[<0>] submit_bio+0x70/0xc0
[<0>] mpage_readahead+0x169/0x1f0
[<0>] blkdev_readahead+0x18/0x30
[<0>] read_pages+0x7c/0x3b0
[<0>] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1ab/0x280
[<0>] force_page_cache_ra+0x9e/0x130
[<0>] page_cache_sync_ra+0x3b/0x110
[<0>] filemap_get_pages+0x143/0xa30
[<0>] filemap_read+0xdc/0x4b0
[<0>] blkdev_read_iter+0x75/0x200
[<0>] vfs_read+0x272/0x460
[<0>] ksys_read+0x7a/0x170
[<0>] __x64_sys_read+0x1c/0x30
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0xc6/0x230
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74
This is because reshape can't make progress.
For md/raid, the problem doesn't exist because register new sync_thread
doesn't rely on the IO to be done any more:
1) If array is read-only, it can switch to read-write by ioctl/sysfs;
2) md/raid never set MD_RECOVERY_WAIT;
3) If MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set, mddev_suspend() doesn't hold
'reconfig_mutex', hence it can be cleared and reshape can continue by
sysfs api 'sync_action'.
However, I'm not sure yet how to avoid the problem in dm-raid yet. This
patch on the one hand make sure raid_message() can't change
sync_thread() through raid_message() after presuspend(), on the other
hand detect the above 3 cases before wait for IO do be done in
dm_suspend(), and let dm-raid requeue those IO.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-05-01