vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-56558: kernel: nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

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

nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show

The function `e_show` was called with protection from RCU. This only
ensures that `exp` will not be freed. Therefore, the reference count for
`exp` can drop to zero, which will trigger a refcount use-after-free
warning when `exp_get` is called. To resolve this issue, use
`cache_get_rcu` to ensure that `exp` remains active.

------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 819 at lib/refcount.c:25
refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 819 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
...
Call Trace:

e_show+0x20b/0x230 [nfsd]
seq_read_iter+0x589/0x770
seq_read+0x1e5/0x270
vfs_read+0x125/0x530
ksys_read+0xc1/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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