Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.23 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: Fix random data corruption from exception handler
The current exception handler implementation, which assists when accessing
user space memory, may exhibit random data corruption if the compiler decides
to use a different register than the specified register %r29 (defined in
ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_REG) for the error code. If the compiler choose another
register, the fault handler will nevertheless store -EFAULT into %r29 and thus
trash whatever this register is used for.
Looking at the assembly I found that this happens sometimes in emulate_ldd().
To solve the issue, the easiest solution would be if it somehow is
possible to tell the fault handler which register is used to hold the error
code. Using %0 or %1 in the inline assembly is not posssible as it will show
up as e.g. %r29 (with the "%r" prefix), which the GNU assembler can not
convert to an integer.
This patch takes another, better and more flexible approach:
We extend the __ex_table (which is out of the execution path) by one 32-word.
In this word we tell the compiler to insert the assembler instruction
"or %r0,%r0,%reg", where %reg references the register which the compiler
choosed for the error return code.
In case of an access failure, the fault handler finds the __ex_table entry and
can examine the opcode. The used register is encoded in the lowest 5 bits, and
the fault handler can then store -EFAULT into this register.
Since we extend the __ex_table to 3 words we can't use the BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
config option any longer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nouveau: offload fence uevents work to workqueue
This should break the deadlock between the fctx lock and the irq lock.
This offloads the processing off the work from the irq into a workqueue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats
lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call
do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will
spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.
Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics
outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will
run lockless.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: prevent use-after-free in encode_cap_msg()
In fs/ceph/caps.c, in encode_cap_msg(), "use after free" error was
caught by KASAN at this line - 'ceph_buffer_get(arg->xattr_buf);'. This
implies before the refcount could be increment here, it was freed.
In same file, in "handle_cap_grant()" refcount is decremented by this
line - 'ceph_buffer_put(ci->i_xattrs.blob);'. It appears that a race
occurred and resource was freed by the latter line before the former
line could increment it.
encode_cap_msg() is called by __send_cap() and __send_cap() is called by
ceph_check_caps() after calling __prep_cap(). __prep_cap() is where
arg->xattr_buf is assigned to ci->i_xattrs.blob. This is the spot where
the refcount must be increased to prevent "use after free" error.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Fix circular locking dependency
The rule inside kvm enforces that the vcpu->mutex is taken *inside*
kvm->lock. The rule is violated by the pkvm_create_hyp_vm() which acquires
the kvm->lock while already holding the vcpu->mutex lock from
kvm_vcpu_ioctl(). Avoid the circular locking dependency altogether by
protecting the hyp vm handle with the config_lock, much like we already
do for other forms of VM-scoped data.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix data corruption in dsync block recovery for small block sizes
The helper function nilfs_recovery_copy_block() of
nilfs_recovery_dsync_blocks(), which recovers data from logs created by
data sync writes during a mount after an unclean shutdown, incorrectly
calculates the on-page offset when copying repair data to the file's page
cache. In environments where the block size is smaller than the page
size, this flaw can cause data corruption and leak uninitialized memory
bytes during the recovery process.
Fix these issues by correcting this byte offset calculation on the page.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix array-index-out-of-bounds in dcn35_clkmgr
[Why]
There is a potential memory access violation while
iterating through array of dcn35 clks.
[How]
Limit iteration per array size.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: j1939: prevent deadlock by changing j1939_socks_lock to rwlock
The following 3 locks would race against each other, causing the
deadlock situation in the Syzbot bug report:
- j1939_socks_lock
- active_session_list_lock
- sk_session_queue_lock
A reasonable fix is to change j1939_socks_lock to an rwlock, since in
the rare situations where a write lock is required for the linked list
that j1939_socks_lock is protecting, the code does not attempt to
acquire any more locks. This would break the circular lock dependency,
where, for example, the current thread already locks j1939_socks_lock
and attempts to acquire sk_session_queue_lock, and at the same time,
another thread attempts to acquire j1939_socks_lock while holding
sk_session_queue_lock.
NOTE: This patch along does not fix the unregister_netdevice bug
reported by Syzbot; instead, it solves a deadlock situation to prepare
for one or more further patches to actually fix the Syzbot bug, which
appears to be a reference counting problem within the j1939 codebase.
[mkl: remove unrelated newline change]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K
syzbot triggered a warning [1] in __alloc_pages():
WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp)
Willem fixed a similar issue in commit c0a2a1b0d631 ("ppp: limit MRU to 64K")
Adopt the same sanity check for ppp_async_ioctl(PPPIOCSMRU)
[1]:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11 at mm/page_alloc.c:4543 __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-syzkaller-g41bccc98fb79 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
pstate: 204000c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
lr : __alloc_pages+0xc8/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4537
sp : ffff800093967580
x29: ffff800093967660 x28: ffff8000939675a0 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff70001272ceb4 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff8000939675c0
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000060820 x21: 1ffff0001272ceb8
x20: ffff8000939675e0 x19: 0000000000000010 x18: ffff800093967120
x17: ffff800083bded5c x16: ffff80008ac97500 x15: 0000000000000005
x14: 1ffff0001272cebc x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff70001272cec1 x10: 1ffff0001272cec0 x9 : 0000000000000001
x8 : ffff800091c91000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 00000000ffffffff x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000020
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff8000939675e0
Call trace:
__alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]
alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]
__kmalloc_large_node+0xbc/0x1fc mm/slub.c:3926
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3969 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x418/0x620 mm/slub.c:4001
kmalloc_reserve+0x17c/0x23c net/core/skbuff.c:590
__alloc_skb+0x1c8/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:651
__netdev_alloc_skb+0xb8/0x3e8 net/core/skbuff.c:715
netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3235 [inline]
dev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3248 [inline]
ppp_async_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:863 [inline]
ppp_asynctty_receive+0x588/0x186c drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:341
tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x12c/0x15c drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:390
tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x74/0xac drivers/tty/tty_port.c:37
receive_buf drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:444 [inline]
flush_to_ldisc+0x284/0x6e4 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:494
process_one_work+0x694/0x1204 kernel/workqueue.c:2633
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2706 [inline]
worker_thread+0x938/0xef4 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
kthread+0x288/0x310 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:860
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number
Fix the construction of delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number
as they can't be used as an RTT reference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-04-02