7.8

CVE-2024-50114

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

KVM: arm64: Unregister redistributor for failed vCPU creation

Alex reports that syzkaller has managed to trigger a use-after-free when
tearing down a VM:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvm_put_kvm+0x300/0xe68 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5769
  Read of size 8 at addr ffffff801c6890d0 by task syz.3.2219/10758

  CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 10758 Comm: syz.3.2219 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-dirty #64
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x17c/0x1a8 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:317
   show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:324
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:93 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x94/0xc0 lib/dump_stack.c:119
   print_report+0x144/0x7a4 mm/kasan/report.c:377
   kasan_report+0xcc/0x128 mm/kasan/report.c:601
   __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381
   kvm_put_kvm+0x300/0xe68 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5769
   kvm_vm_release+0x4c/0x60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1409
   __fput+0x198/0x71c fs/file_table.c:422
   ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:450
   task_work_run+0x1cc/0x23c kernel/task_work.c:228
   do_notify_resume+0x144/0x1a0 include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50
   el0_svc+0x64/0x68 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:169
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0x90/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:730
   el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:598

Upon closer inspection, it appears that we do not properly tear down the
MMIO registration for a vCPU that fails creation late in the game, e.g.
a vCPU w/ the same ID already exists in the VM.

It is important to consider the context of commit that introduced this bug
by moving the unregistration out of __kvm_vgic_vcpu_destroy(). That
change correctly sought to avoid an srcu v. config_lock inversion by
breaking up the vCPU teardown into two parts, one guarded by the
config_lock.

Fix the use-after-free while avoiding lock inversion by adding a
special-cased unregistration to __kvm_vgic_vcpu_destroy(). This is safe
because failed vCPUs are torn down outside of the config_lock.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.11 < 6.11.6
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc4
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.07% 0.209
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.