Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.10.27 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit
mpe: On 64-bit Book3E vmalloc space starts at 0x8000000000000000.
Because of the way __pa() works we have:
__pa(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore
virt_to_pfn(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore
virt_addr_valid(0x8000000000000000) == true
Which is wrong, virt_addr_valid() should be false for vmalloc space.
In fact all vmalloc addresses that alias with a valid PFN will return
true from virt_addr_valid(). That can cause bugs with hardened usercopy
as described below by Kefeng Wang:
When running ethtool eth0 on 64-bit Book3E, a BUG occurred:
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object not in SLUB page?! (offset 0, size 1048)!
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99
...
usercopy_abort+0x64/0xa0 (unreliable)
__check_heap_object+0x168/0x190
__check_object_size+0x1a0/0x200
dev_ethtool+0x2494/0x2b20
dev_ioctl+0x5d0/0x770
sock_do_ioctl+0xf0/0x1d0
sock_ioctl+0x3ec/0x5a0
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf0/0x160
system_call_exception+0xfc/0x1f0
system_call_common+0xf8/0x200
The code shows below,
data = vzalloc(array_size(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN));
copy_to_user(useraddr, data, gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN))
The data is alloced by vmalloc(), virt_addr_valid(ptr) will return true
on 64-bit Book3E, which leads to the panic.
As commit 4dd7554a6456 ("powerpc/64: Add VIRTUAL_BUG_ON checks for __va
and __pa addresses") does, make sure the virt addr above PAGE_OFFSET in
the virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit, also add upper limit check to make
sure the virt is below high_memory.
Meanwhile, for 32-bit PAGE_OFFSET is the virtual address of the start
of lowmem, high_memory is the upper low virtual address, the check is
suitable for 32-bit, this will fix the issue mentioned in commit
602946ec2f90 ("powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly") too.
On 32-bit there is a similar problem with high memory, that was fixed in
commit 602946ec2f90 ("powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly"), but that
commit breaks highmem and needs to be reverted.
We can't easily fix __pa(), we have code that relies on its current
behaviour. So for now add extra checks to virt_addr_valid().
For 64-bit Book3S the extra checks are not necessary, the combination of
virt_to_pfn() and pfn_valid() should yield the correct result, but they
are harmless.
[mpe: Add additional change log detail]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: tcmu: Fix possible page UAF
tcmu_try_get_data_page() looks up pages under cmdr_lock, but it does not
take refcount properly and just returns page pointer. When
tcmu_try_get_data_page() returns, the returned page may have been freed by
tcmu_blocks_release().
We need to get_page() under cmdr_lock to avoid concurrent
tcmu_blocks_release().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Deactivate sysctl_record_panic_msg by default in isolated guests
hv_panic_page might contain guest-sensitive information, do not dump it
over to Hyper-V by default in isolated guests.
While at it, update some comments in hyperv_{panic,die}_event().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Check for potential null return of kmalloc_array()
As the kmalloc_array() may return null, the 'event_waiters[i].wait' would lead to null-pointer dereference.
Therefore, it is better to check the return value of kmalloc_array() to avoid this confusion.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
samples/landlock: Fix path_list memory leak
Clang static analysis reports this error
sandboxer.c:134:8: warning: Potential leak of memory
pointed to by 'path_list'
ret = 0;
^
path_list is allocated in parse_path() but never freed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem
When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
jffs2_do_fill_super().
Finally we can observe the following report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
do_mount+0x107/0x130
__se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
__x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Allocated by task 719:
kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]
Freed by task 719:
kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0
jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8
which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48
The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of
48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)
[...]
==================================================================
The triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack:
-----------------------------------------------------------
jffs2_fill_super
jffs2_do_fill_super
jffs2_do_mount_fs
jffs2_build_filesystem
jffs2_scan_medium
jffs2_scan_eraseblock <--- ERROR
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free again
-----------------------------------------------------------
An error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned
by jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to
be executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again.
So move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root'
to fix this UAF problem.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc
Move some code out of zr36057_init() and create new functions for handling
zr->video_dev. This permit to ease code reading and fix a zr->video_dev
memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: staging: media: zoran: calculate the right buffer number for zoran_reap_stat_com
On the case tmp_dcim=1, the index of buffer is miscalculated.
This generate a NULL pointer dereference later.
So let's fix the calcul and add a check to prevent this to reappear.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges""
A crash [1] happened to be triggered in conjunction with commit
2d52c58b9c9b ("block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"). The
latter was then reverted by commit ebc69e897e17 ("Revert "block, bfq:
honor already-setup queue merges""). Yet, the reverted commit was not
the one introducing the bug. In fact, it actually triggered a UAF
introduced by a different commit, and now fixed by commit d29bd41428cf
("block, bfq: reset last_bfqq_created on group change").
So, there is no point in keeping commit 2d52c58b9c9b ("block, bfq:
honor already-setup queue merges") out. This commit restores it.
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214503
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
video: fbdev: smscufx: Fix null-ptr-deref in ufx_usb_probe()
I got a null-ptr-deref report:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
RIP: 0010:fb_destroy_modelist+0x38/0x100
...
Call Trace:
ufx_usb_probe.cold+0x2b5/0xac1 [smscufx]
usb_probe_interface+0x1aa/0x3c0 [usbcore]
really_probe+0x167/0x460
...
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
If fb_alloc_cmap() fails in ufx_usb_probe(), fb_destroy_modelist() will
be called to destroy modelist in the error handling path. But modelist
has not been initialized yet, so it will result in null-ptr-deref.
Initialize modelist before calling fb_alloc_cmap() to fix this bug.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26