High · published December 27, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binder: fix freeze UAF in binder_release_work()
When a binder reference is cleaned up, any freeze work queued in the
associated process should also be removed. Otherwise, the reference is
freed while its ref->freeze.work is still queued in proc->work leading
to a use-after-free issue as shown by the following KASAN report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_release_work+0x398/0x3d0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff31600ee91488 by task kworker/5:1/211
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/5:1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7-00382-gfc6c92196396 #22
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Workqueue: events binder_deferred_func
Call trace:
binder_release_work+0x398/0x3d0
binder_deferred_func+0xb60/0x109c
process_one_work+0x51c/0xbd4
worker_thread+0x608/0xee8
Allocated by task 703:
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x130/0x280
binder_thread_write+0xdb4/0x42a0
binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x25ac
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x124/0x190
invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x254
Freed by task 211:
kfree+0xc4/0x230
binder_deferred_func+0xae8/0x109c
process_one_work+0x51c/0xbd4
worker_thread+0x608/0xee8
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This commit fixes the issue by ensuring any queued freeze work is removed
when cleaning up a binder reference.