vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-56672): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
Mar 6, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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

blk-cgroup: Fix UAF in blkcg_unpin_online()

blkcg_unpin_online() walks up the blkcg hierarchy putting the online pin. To
walk up, it uses blkcg_parent(blkcg) but it was calling that after
blkcg_destroy_blkgs(blkcg) which could free the blkcg, leading to the
following UAF:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881057678c0 by task kworker/9:1/117

CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 117 Comm: kworker/9:1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-work-00182-gb8f52214c61a-dirty #48
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
Workqueue: cgwb_release cgwb_release_workfn
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x27/0x80
print_report+0x151/0x710
kasan_report+0xc0/0x100
blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
cgwb_release_workfn+0x194/0x480
process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
kthread+0x242/0x2c0
ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
...
Freed by task 1944:
kasan_save_track+0x2b/0x70
kasan_save_free_info+0x3c/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x33/0x50
kfree+0x10c/0x330
css_free_rwork_fn+0xe6/0xb30
process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
kthread+0x242/0x2c0
ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Note that the UAF is not easy to trigger as the free path is indirected
behind a couple RCU grace periods and a work item execution. I could only
trigger it with artifical msleep() injected in blkcg_unpin_online().

Fix it by reading the parent pointer before destroying the blkcg's blkg's.

Solutions

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