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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-41023): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-41023): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/29/2024
Created
11/05/2024
Added
11/04/2024
Modified
11/20/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak During the execution of the following stress test with linux-rt: stress-ng --cyclic 30 --timeout 30 --minimize --quiet kmemleak frequently reported a memory leak concerning the task_struct: unreferenced object 0xffff8881305b8000 (size 16136): comm "stress-ng", pid 614, jiffies 4294883961 (age 286.412s) object hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@.............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ debug hex dump (first 16 bytes): 53 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 S............... backtrace: [<00000000046b6790>] dup_task_struct+0x30/0x540 [<00000000c5ca0f0b>] copy_process+0x3d9/0x50e0 [<00000000ced59777>] kernel_clone+0xb0/0x770 [<00000000a50befdc>] __do_sys_clone+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000001dbf2008>] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xf0 [<00000000552900ff>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 The issue occurs in start_dl_timer(), which increments the task_struct reference count and sets a timer. The timer callback, dl_task_timer, is supposed to decrement the reference count upon expiration. However, if enqueue_task_dl() is called before the timer expires and cancels it, the reference count is not decremented, leading to the leak. This patch fixes the reference leak by ensuring the task_struct reference count is properly decremented when the timer is canceled.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1014-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1014-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1015-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1015-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1016-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1016-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1016-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1016-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1017-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1018-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-48-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-48-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-48-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-48-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04c
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04d
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

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