CVE-2021-47608

bpf: Fix kernel address leakage in atomic fetch

published June 19, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix kernel address leakage in atomic fetch

The change in commit 37086bfdc737 ("bpf: Propagate stack bounds to registers

in atomics w/ BPF_FETCH") around check_mem_access() handling is buggy since

this would allow for unprivileged users to leak kernel pointers. For example,

an atomic fetch/and with -1 on a stack destination which holds a spilled

pointer will migrate the spilled register type into a scalar, which can then

be exported out of the program (since scalar != pointer) by dumping it into

a map value.

The original implementation of XADD was preventing this situation by using

a double call to check_mem_access() one with BPF_READ and a subsequent one

with BPF_WRITE, in both cases passing -1 as a placeholder value instead of

register as per XADD semantics since it didn't contain a value fetch. The

BPF_READ also included a check in check_stack_read_fixed_off() which rejects

the program if the stack slot is of __is_pointer_value() if dst_regno < 0.

The latter is to distinguish whether we're dealing with a regular stack spill/

fill or some arithmetical operation which is disallowed on non-scalars, see

also 6e7e63cbb023 ("bpf: Forbid XADD on spilled pointers for unprivileged

users") for more context on check_mem_access() and its handling of placeholder

value -1.

One minimally intrusive option to fix the leak is for the BPF_FETCH case to

initially check the BPF_READ case via check_mem_access() with -1 as register,

followed by the actual load case with non-negative load_reg to propagate

stack bounds to registers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
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EPSS
0.00211 · 10.8th percentile
Published
2024-06-19T14:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JUN 14:54Z
    bpf: Fix kernel address leakage in atomic fetch
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