CVE-2024-36938
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
30/05/2024
Last modified:
29/07/2024
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue<br />
<br />
Fix NULL pointer data-races in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue() which<br />
syzbot reported [1].<br />
<br />
[1]<br />
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in sk_psock_drop / sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue<br />
<br />
write to 0xffff88814b3278b8 of 8 bytes by task 10724 on cpu 1:<br />
sk_psock_stop_verdict net/core/skmsg.c:1257 [inline]<br />
sk_psock_drop+0x13e/0x1f0 net/core/skmsg.c:843<br />
sk_psock_put include/linux/skmsg.h:459 [inline]<br />
sock_map_close+0x1a7/0x260 net/core/sock_map.c:1648<br />
unix_release+0x4b/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1048<br />
__sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]<br />
sock_close+0x68/0x150 net/socket.c:1421<br />
__fput+0x2c1/0x660 fs/file_table.c:422<br />
__fput_sync+0x44/0x60 fs/file_table.c:507<br />
__do_sys_close fs/open.c:1556 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_close+0x101/0x1b0 fs/open.c:1541<br />
__x64_sys_close+0x1f/0x30 fs/open.c:1541<br />
do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75<br />
<br />
read to 0xffff88814b3278b8 of 8 bytes by task 10713 on cpu 0:<br />
sk_psock_data_ready include/linux/skmsg.h:464 [inline]<br />
sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue+0x32d/0x390 net/core/skmsg.c:555<br />
sk_psock_skb_ingress_self+0x185/0x1e0 net/core/skmsg.c:606<br />
sk_psock_verdict_apply net/core/skmsg.c:1008 [inline]<br />
sk_psock_verdict_recv+0x3e4/0x4a0 net/core/skmsg.c:1202<br />
unix_read_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:2546 [inline]<br />
unix_stream_read_skb+0x9e/0xf0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2682<br />
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0x77/0x220 net/core/skmsg.c:1223<br />
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x527/0x860 net/unix/af_unix.c:2339<br />
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]<br />
__sock_sendmsg+0x140/0x180 net/socket.c:745<br />
____sys_sendmsg+0x312/0x410 net/socket.c:2584<br />
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2638 [inline]<br />
__sys_sendmsg+0x1e9/0x280 net/socket.c:2667<br />
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]<br />
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x46/0x50 net/socket.c:2674<br />
do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75<br />
<br />
value changed: 0xffffffff83d7feb0 -> 0x0000000000000000<br />
<br />
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:<br />
CPU: 0 PID: 10713 Comm: syz-executor.4 Tainted: G W 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024<br />
<br />
Prior to this, commit 4cd12c6065df ("bpf, sockmap: Fix NULL pointer<br />
dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()") fixed one NULL pointer<br />
similarly due to no protection of saved_data_ready. Here is another<br />
different caller causing the same issue because of the same reason. So<br />
we should protect it with sk_callback_lock read lock because the writer<br />
side in the sk_psock_drop() uses "write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);".<br />
<br />
To avoid errors that could happen in future, I move those two pairs of<br />
lock into the sk_psock_data_ready(), which is suggested by John Fastabend.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.20 (including) | 5.15.159 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 6.1.91 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.2 (including) | 6.6.31 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.7 (including) | 6.8.10 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39dc9e1442385d6e9be0b6491ee488dddd55ae27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5965bc7535fb87510b724e5465ccc1a1cf00916d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6648e613226e18897231ab5e42ffc29e63fa3365
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/772d5729b5ff0df0d37b32db600ce635b2172f80
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b397a0ab8582c533ec0c6b732392f141fc364f87
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0809c128dad4c3413818384eb06a341633db973



