CVE-2024-56772

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

kunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()

In kunit_debugfs_create_suite(), if alloc_string_stream() fails in the kunit_suite_for_each_test_case() loop, the suite->log = stream has assigned before, and the error path only free the suite->logs stream memory but not set it to NULL, so the later string_stream_clear() of suite->log in kunit_init_suite() will cause below UAF bug.

Set stream pointer to NULL after free to fix it.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 006440150000030d
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000004
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[006440150000030d] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in: iio_test_gts industrialio_gts_helper cfg80211 rfkill ipv6 [last unloaded: iio_test_gts]
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 6253 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G    B   W        N 6.12.0-rc4+ #458
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [N]=TEST
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac
lr : string_stream_clear+0x1a8/0x1ac
sp : ffffffc080b47410
x29: ffffffc080b47410 x28: 006440550000030d x27: ffffff80c96b5e98
x26: ffffff80c96b5e80 x25: ffffffe461b3f6c0 x24: 0000000000000003
x23: ffffff80c96b5e88 x22: 1ffffff019cdf4fc x21: dfffffc000000000
x20: ffffff80ce6fa7e0 x19: 032202a80000186d x18: 0000000000001840
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffffe45c355cb4
x14: ffffffe45c35589c x13: ffffffe45c03da78 x12: ffffffb810168e75
x11: 1ffffff810168e74 x10: ffffffb810168e74 x9 : dfffffc000000000
x8 : 0000000000000004 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffffffc080b473a0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffffe462fbf620 x0 : dfffffc000000000
Call trace:
 string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac
 __kunit_test_suites_init+0x108/0x1d8
 kunit_exec_run_tests+0xb8/0x100
 kunit_module_notify+0x400/0x55c
 notifier_call_chain+0xfc/0x3b4
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x68/0x9c
 do_init_module+0x24c/0x5c8
 load_module+0x4acc/0x4e90
 init_module_from_file+0xd4/0x128
 idempotent_init_module+0x2d4/0x57c
 __arm64_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x100
 invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x258
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x160/0x22c
 do_el0_svc+0x44/0x5c
 el0_svc+0x48/0xb8
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158
 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
Code: f9400753 d2dff800 f2fbffe0 d343fe7c (38e06b80)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception

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/3213b92754b94dec6836e8b4d6ec7d224a805b61
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39e21403c978862846fa68b7f6d06f9cca235194