NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:6.1.75-99.163.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELHEADERS-6728700
  • published30 Apr 2024
  • disclosed22 Feb 2024

Introduced: 22 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-26591  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-headers to version 0:6.1.75-99.163.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2024-519.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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: <TASK> ? __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.

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