5.5

CVE-2024-43870

perf: Fix event leak upon exit

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

perf: Fix event leak upon exit

When a task is scheduled out, pending sigtrap deliveries are deferred
to the target task upon resume to userspace via task_work.

However failures while adding an event's callback to the task_work
engine are ignored. And since the last call for events exit happen
after task work is eventually closed, there is a small window during
which pending sigtrap can be queued though ignored, leaking the event
refcount addition such as in the following scenario:

    TASK A
    -----

    do_exit()
       exit_task_work(tsk);

       <IRQ>
       perf_event_overflow()
          event->pending_sigtrap = pending_id;
          irq_work_queue(&event->pending_irq);
       </IRQ>
    =========> PREEMPTION: TASK A -> TASK B
       event_sched_out()
          event->pending_sigtrap = 0;
          atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount)
          // FAILS: task work has exited
          task_work_add(&event->pending_task)
       [...]
       <IRQ WORK>
       perf_pending_irq()
          // early return: event->oncpu = -1
       </IRQ WORK>
       [...]
    =========> TASK B -> TASK A
       perf_event_exit_task(tsk)
          perf_event_exit_event()
             free_event()
                WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1)
                // leak event due to unexpected refcount == 2

As a result the event is never released while the task exits.

Fix this with appropriate task_work_add()'s error handling.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.15.84 < 5.15.165
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.0.14 < 6.1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.1.1 < 6.1.103
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.44
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.10.3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Update-
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc8
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.21% 0.111
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d3fd599594abf79aad4484bccb2b26e1cb0b51
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd5ad3f310de22836cdacae919dd99d758a1f1b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d7a63352a93bdb8a1cdf29606bf617d3ac1c22a
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67fad724f1b568b356c1065d50df46e6b30eb2f7
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70882d7fa74f0731492a0d493e8515a4f7131831
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html