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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 21, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check

Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer shows this report:

[ 62.982337] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 62.985692] cgroup: Invalid name
[ 62.986211] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../block/ioctl.c:36:46
[ 62.989370] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7343): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.992992] 9223372036854775807 + 4095 cannot be represented in type 'long long'
[ 62.997827] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7345): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.999369] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 63.000634] GUP no longer grows the stack in syz-executor.2 (7353): 20002000-20003000 (20001000)
[ 63.000668] CPU: 0 PID: 7353 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1
[ 63.000677] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 63.000682] Call Trace:
[ 63.000686]
[ 63.000731] dump_stack_lvl+0x93/0xd0
[ 63.000919] __get_user_pages+0x903/0xd30
[ 63.001030] __gup_longterm_locked+0x153e/0x1ba0
[ 63.001041] ? _raw_read_unlock_irqrestore+0x17/0x50
[ 63.001072] ? try_get_folio+0x29c/0x2d0
[ 63.001083] internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x1119/0x1530
[ 63.001109] iov_iter_extract_pages+0x23b/0x580
[ 63.001206] bio_iov_iter_get_pages+0x4de/0x1220
[ 63.001235] iomap_dio_bio_iter+0x9b6/0x1410
[ 63.001297] __iomap_dio_rw+0xab4/0x1810
[ 63.001316] iomap_dio_rw+0x45/0xa0
[ 63.001328] ext4_file_write_iter+0xdde/0x1390
[ 63.001372] vfs_write+0x599/0xbd0
[ 63.001394] ksys_write+0xc8/0x190
[ 63.001403] do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x1b0
[ 63.001421] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x3a/0x60
[ 63.001479] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77
[ 63.001535] RIP: 0033:0x7f7fd3ebf539
[ 63.001551] Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 14 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[ 63.001562] RSP: 002b:00007f7fd32570c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
[ 63.001584] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7fd3ff3f80 RCX: 00007f7fd3ebf539
[ 63.001590] RDX: 4db6d1e4f7e43360 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
[ 63.001595] RBP: 00007f7fd3f1e496 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 63.001599] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 63.001604] R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 00007f7fd3ff3f80 R15: 00007ffd415ad2b8
...
[ 63.018142] ---[ end trace ]---

Historically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the
kernel due to its interaction with -fwrapv but this has since been
changed 1 in the newest version of Clang; It was re-enabled in the
kernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab ("ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow
sanitizer").

Let's rework this overflow checking logic to not actually perform an
overflow during the check itself, thus avoiding the UBSAN splat.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Aug 21, 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-2024-41000

GHSA ID

GHSA-gfgx-m82f-4x3g

Source code

No known source code

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