Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.37.5 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/eeh: avoid possible crash when edev->pdev changes
If a PCI device is removed during eeh_pe_report_edev(), edev->pdev
will change and can cause a crash, hold the PCI rescan/remove lock
while taking a copy of edev->pdev->bus.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak
Below is a summary of how the driver stores a reference to an skb during
transmit:
tx_buff[free_map[consumer_index]]->skb = new_skb;
free_map[consumer_index] = IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP;
consumer_index ++;
Where variable data looks like this:
free_map == [4, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, 0, 3]
consumer_index^
tx_buff == [skb=null, skb=<ptr>, skb=<ptr>, skb=null, skb=null]
The driver has checks to ensure that free_map[consumer_index] pointed to
a valid index but there was no check to ensure that this index pointed
to an unused/null skb address. So, if, by some chance, our free_map and
tx_buff lists become out of sync then we were previously risking an
skb memory leak. This could then cause tcp congestion control to stop
sending packets, eventually leading to ETIMEDOUT.
Therefore, add a conditional to ensure that the skb address is null. If
not then warn the user (because this is still a bug that should be
patched) and free the old pointer to prevent memleak/tcp problems.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prevent UAF in kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group()
Al reported a possible use-after-free (UAF) in kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group().
It looks up `stt` from tablefd, but then continues to use it after doing
fdput() on the returned fd. After the fdput() the tablefd is free to be
closed by another thread. The close calls kvm_spapr_tce_release() and
then release_spapr_tce_table() (via call_rcu()) which frees `stt`.
Although there are calls to rcu_read_lock() in
kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group() they are not sufficient to prevent
the UAF, because `stt` is used outside the locked regions.
With an artifcial delay after the fdput() and a userspace program which
triggers the race, KASAN detects the UAF:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group+0x298/0x720 [kvm]
Read of size 4 at addr c000200027552c30 by task kvm-vfio/2505
CPU: 54 PID: 2505 Comm: kvm-vfio Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3-next-20240612-dirty #1
Hardware name: 8335-GTH POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:skiboot-v6.5.3-35-g1851b2a06 PowerNV
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0x108 (unreliable)
print_report+0x2b4/0x6ec
kasan_report+0x118/0x2b0
__asan_load4+0xb8/0xd0
kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group+0x298/0x720 [kvm]
kvm_vfio_set_attr+0x524/0xac0 [kvm]
kvm_device_ioctl+0x144/0x240 [kvm]
sys_ioctl+0x62c/0x1810
system_call_exception+0x190/0x440
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
...
Freed by task 0:
...
kfree+0xec/0x3e0
release_spapr_tce_table+0xd4/0x11c [kvm]
rcu_core+0x568/0x16a0
handle_softirqs+0x23c/0x920
do_softirq_own_stack+0x6c/0x90
do_softirq_own_stack+0x58/0x90
__irq_exit_rcu+0x218/0x2d0
irq_exit+0x30/0x80
arch_local_irq_restore+0x128/0x230
arch_local_irq_enable+0x1c/0x30
cpuidle_enter_state+0x134/0x5cc
cpuidle_enter+0x6c/0xb0
call_cpuidle+0x7c/0x100
do_idle+0x394/0x410
cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x70
start_secondary+0x3fc/0x410
start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
Fix it by delaying the fdput() until `stt` is no longer in use, which
is effectively the entire function. To keep the patch minimal add a call
to fdput() at each of the existing return paths. Future work can convert
the function to goto or __cleanup style cleanup.
With the fix in place the test case no longer triggers the UAF.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name
[syzbot reported]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in sized_strscpy+0xc4/0x160
sized_strscpy+0xc4/0x160
copy_name+0x2af/0x320 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:411
hfsplus_listxattr+0x11e9/0x1a50 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:750
vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:493 [inline]
listxattr+0x1f3/0x6b0 fs/xattr.c:840
path_listxattr fs/xattr.c:864 [inline]
__do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:876 [inline]
__se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:873 [inline]
__x64_sys_listxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:873
x64_sys_call+0x2ba0/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:195
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3877 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3918 [inline]
kmalloc_trace+0x57b/0xbe0 mm/slub.c:4065
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:628 [inline]
hfsplus_listxattr+0x4cc/0x1a50 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:699
vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:493 [inline]
listxattr+0x1f3/0x6b0 fs/xattr.c:840
path_listxattr fs/xattr.c:864 [inline]
__do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:876 [inline]
__se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:873 [inline]
__x64_sys_listxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:873
x64_sys_call+0x2ba0/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:195
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[Fix]
When allocating memory to strbuf, initialize memory to 0.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
filelock: Fix fcntl/close race recovery compat path
When I wrote commit 3cad1bc01041 ("filelock: Remove locks reliably when
fcntl/close race is detected"), I missed that there are two copies of the
code I was patching: The normal version, and the version for 64-bit offsets
on 32-bit kernels.
Thanks to Greg KH for stumbling over this while doing the stable
backport...
Apply exactly the same fix to the compat path for 32-bit kernels.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block
This adds sanity checks for xfs_dir2_data_unused and xfs_dir2_data_entry
to make sure don't stray beyond valid memory region. Before patching, the
loop simply checks that the start offset of the dup and dep is within the
range. So in a crafted image, if last entry is xfs_dir2_data_unused, we
can change dup->length to dup->length-1 and leave 1 byte of space. In the
next traversal, this space will be considered as dup or dep. We may
encounter an out of bound read when accessing the fixed members.
In the patch, we make sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold
an unused entry before accessing xfs_dir2_data_unused and
xfs_dir2_data_unused is XFS_DIR2_DATA_ALIGN byte aligned. We also make
sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold a dirent with a
single-byte name before accessing xfs_dir2_data_entry.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: add bounds checking to xlog_recover_process_data
There is a lack of verification of the space occupied by fixed members
of xlog_op_header in the xlog_recover_process_data.
We can create a crafted image to trigger an out of bounds read by
following these steps:
1) Mount an image of xfs, and do some file operations to leave records
2) Before umounting, copy the image for subsequent steps to simulate
abnormal exit. Because umount will ensure that tail_blk and
head_blk are the same, which will result in the inability to enter
xlog_recover_process_data
3) Write a tool to parse and modify the copied image in step 2
4) Make the end of the xlog_op_header entries only 1 byte away from
xlog_rec_header->h_size
5) xlog_rec_header->h_num_logops++
6) Modify xlog_rec_header->h_crc
Fix:
Add a check to make sure there is sufficient space to access fixed members
of xlog_op_header.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected
When fcntl_setlk() races with close(), it removes the created lock with
do_lock_file_wait().
However, LSMs can allow the first do_lock_file_wait() that created the lock
while denying the second do_lock_file_wait() that tries to remove the lock.
Separately, posix_lock_file() could also fail to
remove a lock due to GFP_KERNEL allocation failure (when splitting a range
in the middle).
After the bug has been triggered, use-after-free reads will occur in
lock_get_status() when userspace reads /proc/locks. This can likely be used
to read arbitrary kernel memory, but can't corrupt kernel memory.
Fix it by calling locks_remove_posix() instead, which is designed to
reliably get rid of POSIX locks associated with the given file and
files_struct and is also used by filp_flush().
CVSS Score
6.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-23
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mISDN: Fix memory leak in dsp_pipeline_build()
dsp_pipeline_build() allocates dup pointer by kstrdup(cfg),
but then it updates dup variable by strsep(&dup, "|").
As a result when it calls kfree(dup), the dup variable contains NULL.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: bypass tiling flag check in virtual display case (v2)
vkms leverages common amdgpu framebuffer creation, and
also as it does not support FB modifier, there is no need
to check tiling flags when initing framebuffer when virtual
display is enabled.
This can fix below calltrace:
amdgpu 0000:00:08.0: GFX9+ requires FB check based on format modifier
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1023 at drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c:1150 amdgpu_display_framebuffer_init+0x8e7/0xb40 [amdgpu]
v2: check adev->enable_virtual_display instead as vkms can be
enabled in bare metal as well.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-16