ghsa-97gj-q9fx-vc88
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-03-04 18:30
Modified
2024-03-04 18:30
Details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects
Hulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:
unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):
comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
seq_open+0x2a/0x80
full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0
do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0
path_openat+0x961/0xa20
do_filp_open+0xae/0x120
do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0
do_sys_open+0x57/0x80
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):
comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30 kfence-#250: 0x0
30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d 0000000754bda12-
backtrace:
seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440
seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0
full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80
vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0
ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
I find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
The leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:
do_syscall_64
do_sys_open
do_dentry_open
full_proxy_open
seq_open ---> alloc seq_file
vfs_read
full_proxy_read
seq_read
seq_read_iter
traverse ---> alloc seq_buf
And it should have been released in the following process:
do_syscall_64
syscall_exit_to_user_mode
exit_to_user_mode_prepare
task_work_run
____fput
__fput
full_proxy_release ---> free here
However, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not implemented in kfence. As a result, a memory leak occurs. Therefore, the solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding release function.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-47089"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-03-04T18:15:07Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects\n\nHulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):\n comm \"cat\", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n seq_open+0x2a/0x80\n full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0\n do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0\n path_openat+0x961/0xa20\n do_filp_open+0xae/0x120\n do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0\n do_sys_open+0x57/0x80\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):\n comm \"cat\", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30 kfence-#250: 0x0\n 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d 0000000754bda12-\n backtrace:\n seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440\n seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0\n full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80\n vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0\n ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\nI find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following\ncommands:\n\n\tcat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects\n\techo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n\tcat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n\nThe leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:\n\n do_syscall_64\n do_sys_open\n do_dentry_open\n full_proxy_open\n seq_open ---\u003e alloc seq_file\n vfs_read\n full_proxy_read\n seq_read\n seq_read_iter\n traverse ---\u003e alloc seq_buf\n\nAnd it should have been released in the following process:\n\n do_syscall_64\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare\n task_work_run\n ____fput\n __fput\n full_proxy_release ---\u003e free here\n\nHowever, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not\nimplemented in kfence. As a result, a memory leak occurs. Therefore,\nthe solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding release\nfunction.",
"id": "GHSA-97gj-q9fx-vc88",
"modified": "2024-03-04T18:30:38Z",
"published": "2024-03-04T18:30:37Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47089"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0129ab1f268b6cf88825eae819b9b84aa0a85634"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f06c8293d27f6337f907042c602c9c953988c48"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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