CVE-2024-56772

kunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()

High · published January 8, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

kunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()

In kunit_debugfs_create_suite(), if alloc_string_stream() fails in the

kunit_suite_for_each_test_case() loop, the "suite->log = stream"

has assigned before, and the error path only free the suite->log's stream

memory but not set it to NULL, so the later string_stream_clear() of

suite->log in kunit_init_suite() will cause below UAF bug.

Set stream pointer to NULL after free to fix it.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 006440150000030d

Mem abort info:

ESR = 0x0000000096000004

EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits

SET = 0, FnV = 0

EA = 0, S1PTW = 0

FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault

Data abort info:

ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000

CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0

GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0

[006440150000030d] address between user and kernel address ranges

Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Dumping ftrace buffer:

(ftrace buffer empty)

Modules linked in: iio_test_gts industrialio_gts_helper cfg80211 rfkill ipv6 [last unloaded: iio_test_gts]

CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 6253 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G B W N 6.12.0-rc4+ #458

Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [N]=TEST

Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)

pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

pc : string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac

lr : string_stream_clear+0x1a8/0x1ac

sp : ffffffc080b47410

x29: ffffffc080b47410 x28: 006440550000030d x27: ffffff80c96b5e98

x26: ffffff80c96b5e80 x25: ffffffe461b3f6c0 x24: 0000000000000003

x23: ffffff80c96b5e88 x22: 1ffffff019cdf4fc x21: dfffffc000000000

x20: ffffff80ce6fa7e0 x19: 032202a80000186d x18: 0000000000001840

x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffffe45c355cb4

x14: ffffffe45c35589c x13: ffffffe45c03da78 x12: ffffffb810168e75

x11: 1ffffff810168e74 x10: ffffffb810168e74 x9 : dfffffc000000000

x8 : 0000000000000004 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000001

x5 : ffffffc080b473a0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000

x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffffe462fbf620 x0 : dfffffc000000000

Call trace:

string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac

__kunit_test_suites_init+0x108/0x1d8

kunit_exec_run_tests+0xb8/0x100

kunit_module_notify+0x400/0x55c

notifier_call_chain+0xfc/0x3b4

blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x68/0x9c

do_init_module+0x24c/0x5c8

load_module+0x4acc/0x4e90

init_module_from_file+0xd4/0x128

idempotent_init_module+0x2d4/0x57c

__arm64_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x100

invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x258

el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x160/0x22c

do_el0_svc+0x44/0x5c

el0_svc+0x48/0xb8

el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158

el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

Code: f9400753 d2dff800 f2fbffe0 d343fe7c (38e06b80)

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception

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
0.00201 · 9.5th percentile
Published
2025-01-08T17:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 JAN 17:49Z
    kunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()
    cvelistv5