CVE-2022-50219

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

bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs

Syzbot found a Use After Free bug in compute_effective_progs(). The reproducer creates a number of BPF links, and causes a fault injected alloc to fail, while calling bpf_link_detach on them. Link detach triggers the link to be freed by bpf_link_free(), which calls __cgroup_bpf_detach() and update_effective_progs(). If the memory allocation in this function fails, the function restores the pointer to the bpf_cgroup_link on the cgroup list, but the memory gets freed just after it returns. After this, every subsequent call to update_effective_progs() causes this already deallocated pointer to be dereferenced in prog_list_length(), and triggers KASAN UAF error.

To fix this issue dont preserve the pointer to the prog or link in the list, but remove it and replace it with a dummy prog without shrinking the table. The subsequent call to __cgroup_bpf_detach() or __cgroup_bpf_detach() will correct it.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f8ca9c40e6222ce431e9ba5dae3cccce8ef9443
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3527e3cbb84d8868c4d4e91ba55915f96d39ec3d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c46091ee985ae84c60c5e95055d779fcd291d87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6336388715afa419cc97d0255bda3bba1b96b7ca
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be001f9da71eaa3b61e186fb88bde3279728bdca