GHSA-P79G-J2J8-9WQW
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-04 21:30 – Updated: 2024-10-03 15:30In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object
In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside do_slab_free to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot in __kmem_cache_free_bulk.
This results in a crash like this:
BUG skbuff_head_cache (Tainted: G S B E ): Padding overwritten. 0xffff88907fea0f00-0xffff88907fea0fff @offset=3840
slab_err (mm/slub.c:1129) free_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4036) slab_pad_check (mm/slub.c:864 mm/slub.c:1290) check_slab (mm/slub.c:?) free_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:3171 mm/slub.c:4036) kmem_cache_alloc_bulk (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4495 mm/slub.c:4586 mm/slub.c:4635) napi_build_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:348 net/core/skbuff.c:527 net/core/skbuff.c:549)
All the other callers to do_slab_free appear to be ok.
Add a kfence_free check in __kmem_cache_free_bulk to avoid the crash.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-44973"
],
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"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-09-04T19:15:31Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
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"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object\n\nIn 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep\ninside do_slab_free to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice\nchange, but unfortunately it missed one spot in __kmem_cache_free_bulk.\n\nThis results in a crash like this:\n\nBUG skbuff_head_cache (Tainted: G S B E ): Padding overwritten. 0xffff88907fea0f00-0xffff88907fea0fff @offset=3840\n\nslab_err (mm/slub.c:1129)\nfree_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4036)\nslab_pad_check (mm/slub.c:864 mm/slub.c:1290)\ncheck_slab (mm/slub.c:?)\nfree_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:3171 mm/slub.c:4036)\nkmem_cache_alloc_bulk (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4495 mm/slub.c:4586 mm/slub.c:4635)\nnapi_build_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:348 net/core/skbuff.c:527 net/core/skbuff.c:549)\n\nAll the other callers to do_slab_free appear to be ok.\n\nAdd a kfence_free check in __kmem_cache_free_bulk to avoid the crash.",
"id": "GHSA-p79g-j2j8-9wqw",
"modified": "2024-10-03T15:30:47Z",
"published": "2024-09-04T21:30:32Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44973"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a371d558e6f3aed977a8a7346350557de5d25190"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b35cd7f1e969aaa63e6716d82480f6b8a3230949"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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}
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