CVE-2022-49059

nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf

Our detector found a concurrent use-after-free bug when detaching an

NCI device. The main reason for this bug is the unexpected scheduling

between the used delayed mechanism (timer and workqueue).

The race can be demonstrated below:

Thread-1 Thread-2

| nci_dev_up()

| nci_open_device()

| __nci_request(nci_reset_req)

| nci_send_cmd

| queue_work(cmd_work)

nci_unregister_device() |

nci_close_device() | ...

del_timer_sync(cmd_timer)[1] |

... | Worker

nci_free_device() | nci_cmd_work()

kfree(ndev)[3] | mod_timer(cmd_timer)[2]

In short, the cleanup routine thought that the cmd_timer has already

been detached by [1] but the mod_timer can re-attach the timer [2], even

it is already released [3], resulting in UAF.

This UAF is easy to trigger, crash trace by POC is like below

[ 66.703713] ==================================================================

[ 66.703974] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490

[ 66.703974] Write of size 8 at addr ffff888009fb7058 by task kworker/u4:1/33

[ 66.703974]

[ 66.703974] CPU: 1 PID: 33 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2 #5

[ 66.703974] Workqueue: nfc2_nci_cmd_wq nci_cmd_work

[ 66.703974] Call Trace:

[ 66.703974] <TASK>

[ 66.703974] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d

[ 66.703974] print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db

[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490

[ 66.703974] kasan_report+0xbe/0x1c0

[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490

[ 66.703974] enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490

[ 66.703974] __mod_timer+0x5e6/0xb80

[ 66.703974] ? mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0

[ 66.703974] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xf0/0xf0

[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x17b/0x410

[ 66.703974] ? queue_work_on+0x61/0x80

[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x130

[ 66.703974] process_one_work+0x8bb/0x1510

[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x410/0x410

[ 66.703974] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230

[ 66.703974] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90

[ 66.703974] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50

[ 66.703974] worker_thread+0x575/0x1190

[ 66.703974] ? process_one_work+0x1510/0x1510

[ 66.703974] kthread+0x2a0/0x340

[ 66.703974] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20

[ 66.703974] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

[ 66.703974] </TASK>

[ 66.703974]

[ 66.703974] Allocated by task 267:

[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40

[ 66.703974] __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0

[ 66.703974] nci_allocate_device+0xd3/0x390

[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x183/0x2c0

[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_uart_open+0xf2/0x1dd

[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_ioctl+0x2c3/0x4a0

[ 66.703974] tty_ioctl+0x764/0x1310

[ 66.703974] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190

[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90

[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

[ 66.703974]

[ 66.703974] Freed by task 406:

[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40

[ 66.703974] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30

[ 66.703974] kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30

[ 66.703974] __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x170

[ 66.703974] kfree+0xb0/0x330

[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_unregister_dev+0x90/0xd0

[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_close+0xdf/0x180

[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_kill+0x73/0x110

[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_hangup+0x281/0x5b0

[ 66.703974] __tty_hangup.part.0+0x431/0x890

[ 66.703974] tty_release+0x3a8/0xc80

[ 66.703974] __fput+0x1f0/0x8c0

[ 66.703974] task_work_run+0xc9/0x170

[ 66.703974] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x194/0x1a0

[ 66.703974] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50

[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90

[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0x

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00303 · 21.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:54Z
    nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf
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