CVE-2023-52922

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

can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show()

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bcm_proc_show+0x969/0xa80 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888155846230 by task cat/7862

CPU: 1 PID: 7862 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-00153-gc8746099c197 #230 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xd5/0x150 print_report+0xc1/0x5e0 kasan_report+0xba/0xf0 bcm_proc_show+0x969/0xa80 seq_read_iter+0x4f6/0x1260 seq_read+0x165/0x210 proc_reg_read+0x227/0x300 vfs_read+0x1d5/0x8d0 ksys_read+0x11e/0x240 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Allocated by task 7846: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0x9e/0xa0 bcm_sendmsg+0x264b/0x44e0 sock_sendmsg+0xda/0x180 ____sys_sendmsg+0x735/0x920 ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1b0 __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Freed by task 7846: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40 ____kasan_slab_free+0x161/0x1c0 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x119/0x220 __kmem_cache_free+0xb4/0x2e0 rcu_core+0x809/0x1bd0

bcm_op is freed before procfs entry be removed in bcm_release(), this lead to bcm_proc_show() may read the freed bcm_op.

Weakness

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

Affected Software

Extended Description

The use of previously-freed memory can have any number of adverse consequences, ranging from the corruption of valid data to the execution of arbitrary code, depending on the instantiation and timing of the flaw. The simplest way data corruption may occur involves the system’s reuse of the freed memory. Use-after-free errors have two common and sometimes overlapping causes:

In this scenario, the memory in question is allocated to another pointer validly at some point after it has been freed. The original pointer to the freed memory is used again and points to somewhere within the new allocation. As the data is changed, it corrupts the validly used memory; this induces undefined behavior in the process. If the newly allocated data happens to hold a class, in C++ for example, various function pointers may be scattered within the heap data. If one of these function pointers is overwritten with an address to valid shellcode, execution of arbitrary code can be achieved.

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11b8e27ed448baa385d90154a141466bd5e92f18
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c3941bb1eb53abe7d640ffee5c4d6b559829ab3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c3b96074f3f9b0aee19bf93cd71af7516582bb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9533dbfac0ff7edd77a5fa2c24974b1d66c8b0a6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/995f47d76647708ec26c6e388663ad4f3f264787
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b58d36d0c1ea29a9571e0222a9c29df0ccfb7ff
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf254b4f68e480e73dab055014e002b77aed30ed
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfd0aa26e9a07f2ce546ccf8304ead6a2914e8a7