5.5
CVE-2024-43870
- EPSS 0.01%
- Published 21.08.2024 01:15:11
- Last modified 03.11.2025 22:18:14
- Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081f
- CVE-Watchlists
- Open
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.Verknüpft mit AI von unstrukturierten Daten zu bestehenden CPE der NVD
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.15.84 < 5.15.165
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.0.14 < 6.1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.1.1 < 6.1.103
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.44
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.10.3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Update-
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc8
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.01% | 0.014 |
| Source | 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
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