CVE-2024-44946CWE-416

CVE-2024-44946

High · published August 31, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
58.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket.

syzkaller reported UAF in kcm_release(). [0]

The scenario is

1. Thread A builds a skb with MSG_MORE and sets kcm->seq_skb.

2. Thread A resumes building skb from kcm->seq_skb but is blocked

by sk_stream_wait_memory()

3. Thread B calls sendmsg() concurrently, finishes building kcm->seq_skb

and puts the skb to the write queue

4. Thread A faces an error and finally frees skb that is already in the

write queue

5. kcm_release() does double-free the skb in the write queue

When a thread is building a MSG_MORE skb, another thread must not touch it.

Let's add a per-sk mutex and serialise kcm_sendmsg().

[0]:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691

Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000ced0fc80 by task syz-executor329/6167

CPU: 1 PID: 6167 Comm: syz-executor329 Tainted: G B 6.8.0-rc5-syzkaller-g9abbc24128bc #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024

Call trace:

dump_backtrace+0x1b8/0x1e4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:291

show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:298

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0xd0/0x124 lib/dump_stack.c:106

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]

print_report+0x178/0x518 mm/kasan/report.c:488

kasan_report+0xd8/0x138 mm/kasan/report.c:601

__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381

__skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]

__skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]

__skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]

__skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]

kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691

__sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]

sock_close+0xa4/0x1e8 net/socket.c:1421

__fput+0x30c/0x738 fs/file_table.c:376

____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:404

task_work_run+0x230/0x2e0 kernel/task_work.c:180

exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]

do_exit+0x618/0x1f64 kernel/exit.c:871

do_group_exit+0x194/0x22c kernel/exit.c:1020

get_signal+0x1500/0x15ec kernel/signal.c:2893

do_signal+0x23c/0x3b44 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:1249

do_notify_resume+0x74/0x1f4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:148

exit_to_user_mode_prepare arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:169 [inline]

exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:178 [inline]

el0_svc+0xac/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:713

el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:730

el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:598

Allocated by task 6166:

kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]

kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68

kasan_save_alloc_info+0x70/0x84 mm/kasan/generic.c:626

unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:314 [inline]

__kasan_slab_alloc+0x74/0x8c mm/kasan/common.c:340

kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3813 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3860 [inline]

kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x204/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:3903

__alloc_skb+0x19c/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:641

alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1296 [inline]

kcm_sendmsg+0x1d3c/0x2124 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:783

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]

sock_sendmsg+0x220/0x2c0 net/socket.c:768

splice_to_socket+0x7cc/0xd58 fs/splice.c:889

do_splice_from fs/splice.c:941 [inline]

direct_splice_actor+0xec/0x1d8 fs/splice.c:1164

splice_direct_to_actor+0x438/0xa0c fs/splice.c:1108

do_splice_direct_actor

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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
0.00860 · 58.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2024-08-31T18:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.6, < 6.1.1076.1.107
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.486.6.48
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.76.10.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 AUG 13:22Z
    kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket.
    cvelistv5