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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38596): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 06/19/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 02/20/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg
A data-race condition has been identified in af_unix. In one data path,
the write function unix_release_sock() atomically writes to
sk->sk_shutdown using WRITE_ONCE. However, on the reader side,
unix_stream_sendmsg() does not read it atomically. Consequently, this
issue is causing the following KCSAN splat to occur:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_release_sock / unix_stream_sendmsg
write (marked) to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 7270 on cpu 28:
unix_release_sock (net/unix/af_unix.c:640)
unix_release (net/unix/af_unix.c:1050)
sock_close (net/socket.c:659 net/socket.c:1421)
__fput (fs/file_table.c:422)
__fput_sync (fs/file_table.c:508)
__se_sys_close (fs/open.c:1559 fs/open.c:1541)
__x64_sys_close (fs/open.c:1541)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
read to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 989 on cpu 14:
unix_stream_sendmsg (net/unix/af_unix.c:2273)
__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:745)
____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2584)
__sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2638 net/socket.c:2724)
__x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2753 net/socket.c:2750 net/socket.c:2750)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
value changed: 0x01 -> 0x03
The line numbers are related to commit dd5a440a31fa ("Linux 6.9-rc7").
Commit e1d09c2c2f57 ("af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown.")
addressed a comparable issue in the past regarding sk->sk_shutdown.
However, it overlooked resolving this particular data path.
This patch only offending unix_stream_sendmsg() function, since the
other reads seem to be protected by unix_state_lock() as discussed in
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-38596
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-38596
- UBUNTU-USN-6949-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6949-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6953-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6955-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6979-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-3
- UBUNTU-USN-7009-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7009-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7019-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7121-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7121-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7121-3

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