CVE-2024-47692CWE-476

CVE-2024-47692

Medium · published October 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
66.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nfsd: return -EINVAL when namelen is 0

When we have a corrupted main.sqlite in /var/lib/nfs/nfsdcld/, it may

result in namelen being 0, which will cause memdup_user() to return

ZERO_SIZE_PTR.

When we access the name.data that has been assigned the value of

ZERO_SIZE_PTR in nfs4_client_to_reclaim(), null pointer dereference is

triggered.

[ T1205] ==================================================================

[ T1205] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260

[ T1205] Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000010 by task nfsdcld/1205

[ T1205]

[ T1205] CPU: 11 PID: 1205 Comm: nfsdcld Not tainted 5.10.0-00003-g2c1423731b8d #406

[ T1205] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014

[ T1205] Call Trace:

[ T1205] dump_stack+0x9a/0xd0

[ T1205] ? nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260

[ T1205] __kasan_report.cold+0x34/0x84

[ T1205] ? nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260

[ T1205] kasan_report+0x3a/0x50

[ T1205] nfs4_client_to_reclaim+0xe9/0x260

[ T1205] ? nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x410/0x410

[ T1205] cld_pipe_downcall+0x5ca/0x760

[ T1205] ? nfsd4_cld_tracking_exit+0x1d0/0x1d0

[ T1205] ? down_write_killable_nested+0x170/0x170

[ T1205] ? avc_policy_seqno+0x28/0x40

[ T1205] ? selinux_file_permission+0x1b4/0x1e0

[ T1205] rpc_pipe_write+0x84/0xb0

[ T1205] vfs_write+0x143/0x520

[ T1205] ksys_write+0xc9/0x170

[ T1205] ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50

[ T1205] ? ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64+0xfe/0x110

[ T1205] ? ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64+0xa2/0x110

[ T1205] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40

[ T1205] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

[ T1205] RIP: 0033:0x7fdbdb761bc7

[ T1205] Code: 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 514

[ T1205] RSP: 002b:00007fff8c4b7248 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001

[ T1205] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000042b RCX: 00007fdbdb761bc7

[ T1205] RDX: 000000000000042b RSI: 00007fff8c4b75f0 RDI: 0000000000000008

[ T1205] RBP: 00007fdbdb761bb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001

[ T1205] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000042b

[ T1205] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 00007fff8c4b75f0 R15: 0000000000000000

[ T1205] ==================================================================

Fix it by checking namelen.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01160 · 66.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-10-21T16:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.2, < 5.10.2275.10.227
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1685.15.168
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1136.1.113
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.546.6.54
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.136.10.13
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.11, < 6.11.26.11.2
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 11:53Z
    nfsd: return -EINVAL when namelen is 0
    cvelistv5