Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.16.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list
The kernel may crash when deleting a genetlink family if there are still
listeners for that family:
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
...
NIP [c000000000c080bc] netlink_update_socket_mc+0x3c/0xc0
LR [c000000000c0f764] __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
Call Trace:
__netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
genl_unregister_family+0xd4/0x2d0
Change the unsafe loop on the list to a safe one, because inside the
loop there is an element removal from this list.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/9p: Fix a potential socket leak in p9_socket_open
Both p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will call
p9_socket_open(). If the creation of p9_trans_fd fails,
p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will return an
error directly instead of releasing the cscoket, which will
result in a socket leak.
This patch adds sock_release() to fix the leak issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed
I got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G B N 6.1.0-rc3+
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0
device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0
bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240
device_del+0x357/0x770
phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30
mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140
release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0
devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150
device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0
//probe path:
phy_device_register()
device_add()
phy_connect
phy_attach_direct() //set device driver
probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound
device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called
//remove path:
phy_device_remove()
device_del()
device_release_driver_internal()
__device_release_driver() //dev->drv is not NULL
klist_remove() <- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref
In phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev->driver', probe() fails,
device_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver->n_klist is not
set, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while
deleting device. Fix this by setting dev->driver to NULL in the error
path in phy_attach_direct().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (ibmpex) Fix possible UAF when ibmpex_register_bmc() fails
Smatch report warning as follows:
drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c:509 ibmpex_register_bmc() warn:
'&data->list' not removed from list
If ibmpex_find_sensors() fails in ibmpex_register_bmc(), data will
be freed, but data->list will not be removed from driver_data.bmc_data,
then list traversal may cause UAF.
Fix by removeing it from driver_data.bmc_data before free().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: qgroup: fix sleep from invalid context bug in btrfs_qgroup_inherit()
Syzkaller reported BUG as follows:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/linux/sched/mm.h:274
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134
__might_resched.cold+0x222/0x26b
kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x3c0
update_qgroup_limit_item+0xe1/0x390
btrfs_qgroup_inherit+0x147b/0x1ee0
create_subvol+0x4eb/0x1710
btrfs_mksubvol+0xfe5/0x13f0
__btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x2b0/0x430
btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0x25a/0x520
btrfs_ioctl+0x2a1c/0x5ce0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
Fix this by calling qgroup_dirty() on @dstqgroup, and update limit item in
btrfs_run_qgroups() later outside of the spinlock context.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Free buffers when a used dynamic event is removed
After 65536 dynamic events have been added and removed, the "type" field
of the event then uses the first type number that is available (not
currently used by other events). A type number is the identifier of the
binary blobs in the tracing ring buffer (known as events) to map them to
logic that can parse the binary blob.
The issue is that if a dynamic event (like a kprobe event) is traced and
is in the ring buffer, and then that event is removed (because it is
dynamic, which means it can be created and destroyed), if another dynamic
event is created that has the same number that new event's logic on
parsing the binary blob will be used.
To show how this can be an issue, the following can crash the kernel:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# for i in `seq 65536`; do
echo 'p:kprobes/foo do_sys_openat2 $arg1:u32' > kprobe_events
# done
For every iteration of the above, the writing to the kprobe_events will
remove the old event and create a new one (with the same format) and
increase the type number to the next available on until the type number
reaches over 65535 which is the max number for the 16 bit type. After it
reaches that number, the logic to allocate a new number simply looks for
the next available number. When an dynamic event is removed, that number
is then available to be reused by the next dynamic event created. That is,
once the above reaches the max number, the number assigned to the event in
that loop will remain the same.
Now that means deleting one dynamic event and created another will reuse
the previous events type number. This is where bad things can happen.
After the above loop finishes, the kprobes/foo event which reads the
do_sys_openat2 function call's first parameter as an integer.
# echo 1 > kprobes/foo/enable
# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/null
# cat trace
cat-2211 [005] .... 2007.849603: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x130) arg1=4294967196
cat-2211 [005] .... 2007.849620: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x130) arg1=4294967196
cat-2211 [005] .... 2007.849838: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x130) arg1=4294967196
cat-2211 [005] .... 2007.849880: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x130) arg1=4294967196
# echo 0 > kprobes/foo/enable
Now if we delete the kprobe and create a new one that reads a string:
# echo 'p:kprobes/foo do_sys_openat2 +0($arg2):string' > kprobe_events
And now we can the trace:
# cat trace
sendmail-1942 [002] ..... 530.136320: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x240) arg1= cat-2046 [004] ..... 530.930817: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x240) arg1="������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������"
cat-2046 [004] ..... 530.930961: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x240) arg1="������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������"
cat-2046 [004] ..... 530.934278: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x240) arg1="������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������"
cat-2046 [004] ..... 530.934563: foo: (do_sys_openat2+0x0/0x240) arg1="���������������������������������������
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry()
Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref bug:
NILFS (loop0): segctord starting. Construction interval = 5 seconds, CP
frequency < 30 seconds
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
CPU: 1 PID: 3603 Comm: segctord Not tainted
6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google
10/11/2022
RIP: 0010:nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry+0xe5/0x6b0
fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:608
Code: 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 cd 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00
00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 73 08 49 8d 7e 10 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02
00 0f 85 26 05 00 00 49 8b 46 10 be a6 00 00 00 48 c7 c7
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003dff830 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88802594e218 RCX: 000000000000000d
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000002000 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff888071880222 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000003f
R10: 000000000000000d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888071880158
R13: ffff88802594e220 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fb1c08316a8 CR3: 0000000018560000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_dat_commit_free fs/nilfs2/dat.c:114 [inline]
nilfs_dat_commit_end+0x464/0x5f0 fs/nilfs2/dat.c:193
nilfs_dat_commit_update+0x26/0x40 fs/nilfs2/dat.c:236
nilfs_btree_commit_update_v+0x87/0x4a0 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:1940
nilfs_btree_commit_propagate_v fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2016 [inline]
nilfs_btree_propagate_v fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2046 [inline]
nilfs_btree_propagate+0xa00/0xd60 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2088
nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x73/0x170 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:337
nilfs_collect_file_data+0x45/0xd0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:568
nilfs_segctor_apply_buffers+0x14a/0x470 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1018
nilfs_segctor_scan_file+0x3f4/0x6f0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1067
nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1197 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_collect fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1503 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x12fc/0x6af0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2045
nilfs_segctor_construct+0x8e3/0xb30 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2379
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2487 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x3c3/0xf30 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2570
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>
...
If DAT metadata file is corrupted on disk, there is a case where
req->pr_desc_bh is NULL and blocknr is 0 at nilfs_dat_commit_end() during
a b-tree operation that cascadingly updates ancestor nodes of the b-tree,
because nilfs_dat_commit_alloc() for a lower level block can initialize
the blocknr on the same DAT entry between nilfs_dat_prepare_end() and
nilfs_dat_commit_end().
If this happens, nilfs_dat_commit_end() calls nilfs_dat_commit_free()
without valid buffer heads in req->pr_desc_bh and req->pr_bitmap_bh, and
causes the NULL pointer dereference above in
nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry() function, which leads to a crash.
Fix this by adding a NULL check on req->pr_desc_bh and req->pr_bitmap_bh
before nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry() in nilfs_dat_commit_free().
This also calls nilfs_error() in that case to notify that there is a fatal
flaw in the filesystem metadata and prevent further operations.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: soc-pcm: Add NULL check in BE reparenting
Add NULL check in dpcm_be_reparent API, to handle
kernel NULL pointer dereference error.
The issue occurred in fuzzing test.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: seq: Fix function prototype mismatch in snd_seq_expand_var_event
With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.
seq_copy_in_user() and seq_copy_in_kernel() did not have prototypes
matching snd_seq_dump_func_t. Adjust this and remove the casts. There
are not resulting binary output differences.
This was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict
flag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,
which only checks for type width mismatches.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix crash when replugging CSR fake controllers
It seems fake CSR 5.0 clones can cause the suspend notifier to be
registered twice causing the following kernel panic:
[ 71.986122] Call Trace:
[ 71.986124] <TASK>
[ 71.986125] blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x33/0x60
[ 71.986130] hci_register_dev+0x316/0x3d0 [bluetooth 99b5497ea3d09708fa1366c1dc03288bf3cca8da]
[ 71.986154] btusb_probe+0x979/0xd85 [btusb e1e0605a4f4c01984a4b9c8ac58c3666ae287477]
[ 71.986159] ? __pm_runtime_set_status+0x1a9/0x300
[ 71.986162] ? ktime_get_mono_fast_ns+0x3e/0x90
[ 71.986167] usb_probe_interface+0xe3/0x2b0
[ 71.986171] really_probe+0xdb/0x380
[ 71.986174] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x54/0x90
[ 71.986177] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x170
[ 71.986180] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[ 71.986183] __device_attach_driver+0x89/0x110
[ 71.986186] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x70/0x70
[ 71.986189] bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xe0
[ 71.986192] __device_attach+0xb2/0x1e0
[ 71.986195] bus_probe_device+0x92/0xb0
[ 71.986198] device_add+0x422/0x9a0
[ 71.986201] ? sysfs_merge_group+0xd4/0x110
[ 71.986205] usb_set_configuration+0x57a/0x820
[ 71.986208] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x4f/0x70
[ 71.986211] usb_probe_device+0x3a/0x110
[ 71.986213] really_probe+0xdb/0x380
[ 71.986216] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x54/0x90
[ 71.986219] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x170
[ 71.986221] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[ 71.986224] __device_attach_driver+0x89/0x110
[ 71.986227] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x70/0x70
[ 71.986230] bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xe0
[ 71.986232] __device_attach+0xb2/0x1e0
[ 71.986235] bus_probe_device+0x92/0xb0
[ 71.986237] device_add+0x422/0x9a0
[ 71.986239] ? _dev_info+0x7d/0x98
[ 71.986242] ? blake2s_update+0x4c/0xc0
[ 71.986246] usb_new_device.cold+0x148/0x36d
[ 71.986250] hub_event+0xa8a/0x1910
[ 71.986255] process_one_work+0x1c4/0x380
[ 71.986259] worker_thread+0x51/0x390
[ 71.986262] ? rescuer_thread+0x3b0/0x3b0
[ 71.986264] kthread+0xdb/0x110
[ 71.986266] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 71.986268] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[ 71.986273] </TASK>
[ 71.986274] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 71.986284] btusb: probe of 2-1.6:1.0 failed with error -17
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-21