CVE-2022-50008

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
14/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> kprobes: don&amp;#39;t call disarm_kprobe() for disabled kprobes<br /> <br /> The assumption in __disable_kprobe() is wrong, and it could try to disarm<br /> an already disarmed kprobe and fire the WARN_ONCE() below. [0] We can<br /> easily reproduce this issue.<br /> <br /> 1. Write 0 to /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled.<br /> <br /> # echo 0 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled<br /> <br /> 2. Run execsnoop. At this time, one kprobe is disabled.<br /> <br /> # /usr/share/bcc/tools/execsnoop &amp;<br /> [1] 2460<br /> PCOMM PID PPID RET ARGS<br /> <br /> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list<br /> ffffffff91345650 r __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [FTRACE]<br /> ffffffff91345650 k __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [DISABLED][FTRACE]<br /> <br /> 3. Write 1 to /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled, which changes<br /> kprobes_all_disarmed to false but does not arm the disabled kprobe.<br /> <br /> # echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled<br /> <br /> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list<br /> ffffffff91345650 r __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [FTRACE]<br /> ffffffff91345650 k __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [DISABLED][FTRACE]<br /> <br /> 4. Kill execsnoop, when __disable_kprobe() calls disarm_kprobe() for the<br /> disabled kprobe and hits the WARN_ONCE() in __disarm_kprobe_ftrace().<br /> <br /> # fg<br /> /usr/share/bcc/tools/execsnoop<br /> ^C<br /> <br /> Actually, WARN_ONCE() is fired twice, and __unregister_kprobe_top() misses<br /> some cleanups and leaves the aggregated kprobe in the hash table. Then,<br /> __unregister_trace_kprobe() initialises tk-&gt;rp.kp.list and creates an<br /> infinite loop like this.<br /> <br /> aggregated kprobe.list -&gt; kprobe.list -.<br /> ^ |<br /> &amp;#39;.__.&amp;#39;<br /> <br /> In this situation, these commands fall into the infinite loop and result<br /> in RCU stall or soft lockup.<br /> <br /> cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list : show_kprobe_addr() enters into the<br /> infinite loop with RCU.<br /> <br /> /usr/share/bcc/tools/execsnoop : warn_kprobe_rereg() holds kprobe_mutex,<br /> and __get_valid_kprobe() is stuck in<br /> the loop.<br /> <br /> To avoid the issue, make sure we don&amp;#39;t call disarm_kprobe() for disabled<br /> kprobes.<br /> <br /> [0]<br /> Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at __x64_sys_execve+0x0/0x40 (error -2)<br /> WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 2460 at kernel/kprobes.c:1130 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.19 (kernel/kprobes.c:1129)<br /> Modules linked in: ena<br /> CPU: 6 PID: 2460 Comm: execsnoop Not tainted 5.19.0+ #28<br /> Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017<br /> RIP: 0010:__disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.19 (kernel/kprobes.c:1129)<br /> Code: 24 8b 02 eb c1 80 3d c4 83 f2 01 00 75 d4 48 8b 75 00 89 c2 48 c7 c7 90 fa 0f 92 89 04 24 c6 05 ab 83 01 e8 e4 94 f0 ff 0b 8b 04 24 eb b1 89 c6 48 c7 c7 60 fa 0f 92 89 04 24 e8 cc 94<br /> RSP: 0018:ffff9e6ec154bd98 EFLAGS: 00010282<br /> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff930f7b00 RCX: 0000000000000001<br /> RDX: 0000000080000001 RSI: ffffffff921461c5 RDI: 00000000ffffffff<br /> RBP: ffff89c504286da8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000fffeffff<br /> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9e6ec154bc28 R12: ffff89c502394e40<br /> R13: ffff89c502394c00 R14: ffff9e6ec154bc00 R15: 0000000000000000<br /> FS: 00007fe800398740(0000) GS:ffff89c812d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br /> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br /> CR2: 000000c00057f010 CR3: 0000000103b54006 CR4: 00000000007706e0<br /> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br /> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br /> PKRU: 55555554<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> __disable_kprobe (kernel/kprobes.c:1716)<br /> disable_kprobe (kernel/kprobes.c:2392)<br /> __disable_trace_kprobe (kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:340)<br /> disable_trace_kprobe (kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:429)<br /> perf_trace_event_unreg.isra.2 (./include/linux/tracepoint.h:93 kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:168)<br /> perf_kprobe_destroy (kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:295)<br /> _free_event (kernel/events/core.c:4971)<br /> perf_event_release_kernel (kernel/events/core.c:5176)<br /> perf_release (kernel/events/core.c:5186)<br /> __fput (fs/file_table.c:321)<br /> task_work_run (./include/linux/<br /> ---truncated---

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.0 (including) 4.9.327 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.10 (including) 4.14.292 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.15 (including) 4.19.257 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.20 (including) 5.4.212 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.5 (including) 5.10.141 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.65 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 5.19.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*