CVE-2024-46683CWE-416

CVE-2024-46683

High · published September 13, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm/xe: prevent UAF around preempt fence

The fence lock is part of the queue, therefore in the current design

anything locking the fence should then also hold a ref to the queue to

prevent the queue from being freed.

However, currently it looks like we signal the fence and then drop the

queue ref, but if something is waiting on the fence, the waiter is

kicked to wake up at some later point, where upon waking up it first

grabs the lock before checking the fence state. But if we have already

dropped the queue ref, then the lock might already be freed as part of

the queue, leading to uaf.

To prevent this, move the fence lock into the fence itself so we don't

run into lifetime issues. Alternative might be to have device level

lock, or only release the queue in the fence release callback, however

that might require pushing to another worker to avoid locking issues.

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2454

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2342

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2020

(cherry picked from commit 7116c35aacedc38be6d15bd21b2fc936eed0008b)

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
0.00213 · 11.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2024-09-13T10:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.10.86.10.8
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
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References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 05:29Z
    drm/xe: prevent UAF around preempt fence
    cvelistv5