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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()

We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the restore
command:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888109164a80 by task ondemand-04-dae/4962

CPU: 11 PID: 4962 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-dirty #542
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0x94/0xc0
cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
vfs_read+0x169/0xb50
ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0

Allocated by task 626:
__kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x24d/0x690
cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
[...]

Freed by task 626:
kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x568/0x690
cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
[...]

Following is the process that triggers the issue:

 mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2

cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req
REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)
wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)

        cachefiles_daemon_read
         cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
          REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
          cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
          copy_to_user(_buffer, msg, n)
        process_open_req(REQ_A)
                              ------ restore ------
                              cachefiles_ondemand_restore
                              xas_for_each(&xas, req, ULONG_MAX)
                               xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);

                              cachefiles_daemon_read
                               cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
                                REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req

         write(devfd, ("copen %u,%llu", msg->msg_id, size));
         cachefiles_ondemand_copen
          xa_erase(&cache->reqs, id)
          complete(&REQ_A->done)

kfree(REQ_A)
cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd(REQ_A)
fd = get_unused_fd_flags
file = anon_inode_getfile
fd_install(fd, file)
load = (void *)REQ_A->msg.data;
load->fd = fd;
// load UAF !!!

This issue is caused by issuing a restore command when the daemon is still
alive, which results in a request being processed multiple times thus
triggering a UAF. So to avoid this problem, add an additional reference
count to cachefiles_req, which is held while waiting and reading, and then
released when the waiting and reading is over.

Note that since there is only one reference count for waiting, we need to
avoid the same request being completed multiple times, so we can only
complete the request if it is successfully removed from the xarray.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Aug 28, 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-2024-40899

GHSA ID

GHSA-8jvx-wqf8-m6ph

Source code

No known source code

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