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GHSA-6VWM-9RMV-MWWV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-25 15:31 – Updated: 2024-09-03 18:31

Details

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

genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()

irq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is returned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read lock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the dereference:

CPU0                            CPU1
desc = mt_find()
                                delayed_free_desc(desc)
irq_desc_get_irq(desc)

The use-after-free is reported by KASAN:

Call trace:
 irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84
 show_stat+0x638/0x824
 seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec
 proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c
 vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8

Freed by task 4471:
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0
 __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc
 kfree+0x64/0x128
 irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c
 kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0
 delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c
 rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720

Guard the access with a RCU read lock section.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-38385 (GCVE-0-2024-38385)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-25 14:22 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:32

Title

genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after() irq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is returned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read lock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the dereference: CPU0 CPU1 desc = mt_find() delayed_free_desc(desc) irq_desc_get_irq(desc) The use-after-free is reported by KASAN: Call trace: irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84 show_stat+0x638/0x824 seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8 Freed by task 4471: slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0 __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc kfree+0x64/0x128 irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0 delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720 Guard the access with a RCU read lock section.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:08 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c7891812d85500ae…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d084aa022f84319f8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b84a8aba806261d2f…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52 , < 1c7891812d85500ae2ca4051fa5683fcf29930d8 (git) Affected: 721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52 , < d084aa022f84319f8079e30882cbcbc026af9f21 (git) Affected: 721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52 , < b84a8aba806261d2f759ccedf4a2a6a80a5e55ba (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.5 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.34 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.5 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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