CVE-2024-42318

CVE-2024-42318

High · published August 17, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

landlock: Don't lose track of restrictions on cred_transfer

When a process' cred struct is replaced, this _almost_ always invokes

the cred_prepare LSM hook; but in one special case (when

KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT updates the parent's credentials), the

cred_transfer LSM hook is used instead. Landlock only implements the

cred_prepare hook, not cred_transfer, so KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT causes

all information on Landlock restrictions to be lost.

This basically means that a process with the ability to use the fork()

and keyctl() syscalls can get rid of all Landlock restrictions on

itself.

Fix it by adding a cred_transfer hook that does the same thing as the

existing cred_prepare hook. (Implemented by having hook_cred_prepare()

call hook_cred_transfer() so that the two functions are less likely to

accidentally diverge in the future.)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00299 · 21.4th percentile
Published
2024-08-17T13:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.13, < 5.15.1655.15.165
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1036.1.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.446.6.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.36.10.3
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 09:09Z
    landlock: Don't lose track of restrictions on cred_transfer
    cvelistv5