vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49059: linux -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Feb 27, 2025
Modified
Mar 6, 2025

Description

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

nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf

Our detector found a concurrent use-after-free bug when detaching an
NCI device. The main reason for this bug is the unexpected scheduling
between the used delayed mechanism (timer and workqueue).

The race can be demonstrated below:

Thread-1 Thread-2
| nci_dev_up()
| nci_open_device()
| __nci_request(nci_reset_req)
| nci_send_cmd
| queue_work(cmd_work)
nci_unregister_device() |
nci_close_device() | ...
del_timer_sync(cmd_timer)[1] |
... | Worker
nci_free_device() | nci_cmd_work()
kfree(ndev)[3] | mod_timer(cmd_timer)[2]

In short, the cleanup routine thought that the cmd_timer has already
been detached by [1] but the mod_timer can re-attach the timer [2], even
it is already released [3], resulting in UAF.

This UAF is easy to trigger, crash trace by POC is like below

[ 66.703713] ==================================================================
[ 66.703974] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] Write of size 8 at addr ffff888009fb7058 by task kworker/u4:1/33
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] CPU: 1 PID: 33 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2 #5
[ 66.703974] Workqueue: nfc2_nci_cmd_wq nci_cmd_work
[ 66.703974] Call Trace:
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
[ 66.703974] print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db
[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] kasan_report+0xbe/0x1c0
[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] __mod_timer+0x5e6/0xb80
[ 66.703974] ? mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0
[ 66.703974] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xf0/0xf0
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x17b/0x410
[ 66.703974] ? queue_work_on+0x61/0x80
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x130
[ 66.703974] process_one_work+0x8bb/0x1510
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x410/0x410
[ 66.703974] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230
[ 66.703974] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
[ 66.703974] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50
[ 66.703974] worker_thread+0x575/0x1190
[ 66.703974] ? process_one_work+0x1510/0x1510
[ 66.703974] kthread+0x2a0/0x340
[ 66.703974] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 66.703974] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] Allocated by task 267:
[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 66.703974] __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
[ 66.703974] nci_allocate_device+0xd3/0x390
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x183/0x2c0
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_uart_open+0xf2/0x1dd
[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_ioctl+0x2c3/0x4a0
[ 66.703974] tty_ioctl+0x764/0x1310
[ 66.703974] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190
[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] Freed by task 406:
[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 66.703974] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[ 66.703974] kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
[ 66.703974] __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x170
[ 66.703974] kfree+0xb0/0x330
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_unregister_dev+0x90/0xd0
[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_close+0xdf/0x180
[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_kill+0x73/0x110
[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_hangup+0x281/0x5b0
[ 66.703974] __tty_hangup.part.0+0x431/0x890
[ 66.703974] tty_release+0x3a8/0xc80
[ 66.703974] __fput+0x1f0/0x8c0
[ 66.703974] task_work_run+0xc9/0x170
[ 66.703974] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x194/0x1a0
[ 66.703974] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50
[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0x
---truncated---

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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