SUSE: CVE-2023-52564: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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

Revert "tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux"

This reverts commit 9b9c8195f3f0d74a826077fc1c01b9ee74907239.

The commit above is reverted as it did not solve the original issue.

gsm_cleanup_mux() tries to free up the virtual ttys by calling
gsm_dlci_release() for each available DLCI. There, dlci_put() is called to
decrease the reference counter for the DLCI via tty_port_put() which
finally calls gsm_dlci_free(). This already clears the pointer which is
being checked in gsm_cleanup_mux() before calling gsm_dlci_release().
Therefore, it is not necessary to clear this pointer in gsm_cleanup_mux()
as done in the reverted commit. The commit introduces a null pointer
dereference:

? __die+0x1f/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x156/0x420
? search_exception_tables+0x37/0x50
? fixup_exception+0x21/0x310
? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? tty_port_put+0x19/0xa0
gsmtty_cleanup+0x29/0x80 [n_gsm]
release_one_tty+0x37/0xe0
process_one_work+0x1e6/0x3e0
worker_thread+0x4c/0x3d0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe1/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30


The actual issue is that nothing guards dlci_put() from being called
multiple times while the tty driver was triggered but did not yet finished
calling gsm_dlci_free().