vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-52885: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1827)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2023-09-25
Added
2025-03-02
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

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



SUNRPC: Fix UAF in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready()



After the listener svc_sock is freed, and before invoking svc_tcp_accept()


for the established child sock, there is a window that the newsock


retaining a freed listener svc_sock in sk_user_data which cloning from


parent. In the race window, if data is received on the newsock, we will


observe use-after-free report in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready().



Reproduce by two tasks:



1. while :; do rpc.nfsd 0 ; rpc.nfsd; done


2. while :; do echo "" | ncat -4 127.0.0.1 2049 ; done



KASAN report:



==================================================================


BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x1cf/0x1f0 [sunrpc]


Read of size 8 at addr ffff888139d96228 by task nc/102553


CPU: 7 PID: 102553 Comm: nc Not tainted 6.3.0+ #18


Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020


Call Trace:



dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50


print_address_description.constprop.0+0x27/0x310


print_report+0x3e/0x70


kasan_report+0xae/0xe0


svc_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x1cf/0x1f0 [sunrpc]


tcp_data_queue+0x9f4/0x20e0


tcp_rcv_established+0x666/0x1f60


tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x51c/0x850


tcp_v4_rcv+0x23fc/0x2e80


ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x62/0x300


ip_local_deliver_finish+0x267/0x350


ip_local_deliver+0x18b/0x2d0


ip_rcv+0x2fb/0x370


__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x166/0x1b0


process_backlog+0x24c/0x5e0


__napi_poll+0xa2/0x500


net_rx_action+0x854/0xc90


__do_softirq+0x1bb/0x5de


do_softirq+0xcb/0x100




...




Allocated by task 102371:


kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40


kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30


__kasan_kmalloc+0x7b/0x90


svc_setup_socket+0x52/0x4f0 [sunrpc]


svc_addsock+0x20d/0x400 [sunrpc]


__write_ports_addfd+0x209/0x390 [nfsd]


write_ports+0x239/0x2c0 [nfsd]


nfsctl_transaction_write+0xac/0x110 [nfsd]


vfs_write+0x1c3/0xae0


ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0


do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90


entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc



Freed by task 102551:


kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40


kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30


kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50


__kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x190


__kmem_cache_free+0x133/0x270


svc_xprt_free+0x1e2/0x350 [sunrpc]


svc_xprt_destroy_all+0x25a/0x440 [sunrpc]


nfsd_put+0x125/0x240 [nfsd]


nfsd_svc+0x2cb/0x3c0 [nfsd]


write_threads+0x1ac/0x2a0 [nfsd]


nfsctl_transaction_write+0xac/0x110 [nfsd]


vfs_write+0x1c3/0xae0


ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0


do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90


entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc



Fix the UAF by simply doing nothing in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready()


if state != TCP_LISTEN, that will avoid dereferencing svsk for all


child socket.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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