vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38588): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 06/19/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 04/04/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location()
KASAN reports a bug:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_location+0x90/0x120
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888141d40010 by task insmod/424
CPU: 8 PID: 424 Comm: insmod Tainted: G W 6.9.0-rc2+
[...]
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
print_report+0xcf/0x610
kasan_report+0xb5/0xe0
ftrace_location+0x90/0x120
register_kprobe+0x14b/0xa40
kprobe_init+0x2d/0xff0 [kprobe_example]
do_one_initcall+0x8f/0x2d0
do_init_module+0x13a/0x3c0
load_module+0x3082/0x33d0
init_module_from_file+0xd2/0x130
__x64_sys_finit_module+0x306/0x440
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79
The root cause is that, in lookup_rec(), ftrace record of some address
is being searched in ftrace pages of some module, but those ftrace pages
at the same time is being freed in ftrace_release_mod() as the
corresponding module is being deleted:
CPU1 | CPU2
register_kprobes() { | delete_module() {
check_kprobe_address_safe() { |
arch_check_ftrace_location() { |
ftrace_location() { |
lookup_rec() // USE! | ftrace_release_mod() // Free!
To fix this issue:
1. Hold rcu lock as accessing ftrace pages in ftrace_location_range();
2. Use ftrace_location_range() instead of lookup_rec() in
ftrace_location();
3. Call synchronize_rcu() before freeing any ftrace pages both in
ftrace_process_locs()/ftrace_release_mod()/ftrace_free_mem().
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-38588
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-38588
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