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High severity Unreviewed Published Aug 17, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 19, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/iucv: fix use after free in iucv_sock_close()

iucv_sever_path() is called from process context and from bh context.
iucv->path is used as indicator whether somebody else is taking care of
severing the path (or it is already removed / never existed).
This needs to be done with atomic compare and swap, otherwise there is a
small window where iucv_sock_close() will try to work with a path that has
already been severed and freed by iucv_callback_connrej() called by
iucv_tasklet_fn().

Example:
[452744.123844] Call Trace:
[452744.123845] ([<0000001e87f03880>] 0x1e87f03880)
[452744.123966] [<00000000d593001e>] iucv_path_sever+0x96/0x138
[452744.124330] [<000003ff801ddbca>] iucv_sever_path+0xc2/0xd0 [af_iucv]
[452744.124336] [<000003ff801e01b6>] iucv_sock_close+0xa6/0x310 [af_iucv]
[452744.124341] [<000003ff801e08cc>] iucv_sock_release+0x3c/0xd0 [af_iucv]
[452744.124345] [<00000000d574794e>] __sock_release+0x5e/0xe8
[452744.124815] [<00000000d5747a0c>] sock_close+0x34/0x48
[452744.124820] [<00000000d5421642>] __fput+0xba/0x268
[452744.124826] [<00000000d51b382c>] task_work_run+0xbc/0xf0
[452744.124832] [<00000000d5145710>] do_notify_resume+0x88/0x90
[452744.124841] [<00000000d5978096>] system_call+0xe2/0x2c8
[452744.125319] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[452744.125321] [<00000000d5930018>] iucv_path_sever+0x90/0x138
[452744.125324]
[452744.125325] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Note that bh_lock_sock() is not serializing the tasklet context against
process context, because the check for sock_owned_by_user() and
corresponding handling is missing.

Ideas for a future clean-up patch:
A) Correct usage of bh_lock_sock() in tasklet context, as described in
Re-enqueue, if needed. This may require adding return values to the
tasklet functions and thus changes to all users of iucv.

B) Change iucv tasklet into worker and use only lock_sock() in af_iucv.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 17, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 17, 2024
Last updated Aug 19, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-42271

GHSA ID

GHSA-gqp6-8ccj-768w

Source code

No known source code

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