CVE-2024-35955 Affecting kernel-rt-kvm package, versions *


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTKVM-6961400
  • published 21 May 2024
  • disclosed 20 May 2024

Introduced: 20 May 2024

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-kvm package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

kprobes: Fix possible use-after-free issue on kprobe registration

When unloading a module, its state is changing MODULE_STATE_LIVE -> MODULE_STATE_GOING -> MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. Each change will take a time. is_module_text_address() and __module_text_address() works with MODULE_STATE_LIVE and MODULE_STATE_GOING. If we use is_module_text_address() and __module_text_address() separately, there is a chance that the first one is succeeded but the next one is failed because module->state becomes MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED between those operations.

In check_kprobe_address_safe(), if the second __module_text_address() is failed, that is ignored because it expected a kernel_text address. But it may have failed simply because module->state has been changed to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. In this case, arm_kprobe() will try to modify non-exist module text address (use-after-free).

To fix this problem, we should not use separated is_module_text_address() and __module_text_address(), but use only __module_text_address() once and do try_module_get(module) which is only available with MODULE_STATE_LIVE.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
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SUSE

5.5 medium