CVE-2024-26591

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

bpf: Fix re-attachment branch in bpf_tracing_prog_attach

The following case can cause a crash due to missing attach_btf:

1. load rawtp program
2. load fentry program with rawtp as target_fd
3. create tracing link for fentry program with target_fd = 0
4. repeat 3

In the end we have:

• prog->aux->dst_trampoline == NULL

• tgt_prog == NULL (because we did not provide target_fd to link_create)

• prog->aux->attach_btf == NULL (the program was loaded with attach_prog_fd=X)

• the program was loaded for tgt_prog but we have no way to find out which one

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 Call Trace: ? __die+0x20/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x15b/0x430 ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x330 ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x170 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x279/0x560 ? btf_obj_id+0x5/0x10 bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x439/0x560 __sys_bpf+0x1cf4/0x2de0 __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Return -EINVAL in this situation.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50ae82f080cf87e84828f066c31723b781d68f5b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc9c0af0aa06f781fa515a1734b1a4239dfd2c0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/715d82ba636cb3629a6e18a33bb9dbe53f9936ee
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c8bcd45e9b10eef12321f08d2e5be33d615509c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b98aa10f895e2569403896f2d19b73b6c95653