Out-of-bounds Read Affecting kernel-rt-debug-devel package, versions *
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- published26 Nov 2024
- disclosed19 Nov 2024
Introduced: 19 Nov 2024
NewCVE-2024-50278 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-rt-debug-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-devel package and not the kernel-rt-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume
Out-of-bounds access occurs if the fast device is expanded unexpectedly before the first-time resume of the cache table. This happens because expanding the fast device requires reloading the cache table for cache_create to allocate new in-core data structures that fit the new size, and the check in cache_preresume is not performed during the first resume, leading to the issue.
Reproduce steps:
- prepare component devices:
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
- load a cache table of 512 cache blocks, and deliberately expand the fast device before resuming the cache, making the in-core data structures inadequate.
dmsetup create cache --notable
dmsetup reload cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup resume cdata
dmsetup resume cache
- suspend the cache to write out the in-core dirty bitset and hint array, leading to out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset at offset 0x40:
dmsetup suspend cache
KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in is_dirty_callback+0x2b/0x80 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000085040 by task dmsetup/90
(...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc90000085000, ffffc90000087000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0
(...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc90000084f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90000084f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 >ffffc90000085000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc90000085080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90000085100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
Fix by checking the size change on the first resume.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50278
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/036dd6e3d2638103e0092864577ea1d091466b86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ed3624c6ef283acefa4cc42cc8ae54fd4391a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2222b0929d00e2d13732b799b63be391b5de4492
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/483b7261b35a9d369082ab298a6670912243f0be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0ade5d98979585d4f5a93e4514c2e9a65afa08d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c52ec00cb2f9bebfada22edcc0db385b910a1cdb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e492f71854ce03474d49e87fd98b8df1f7cd1d2d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdef3b94dfebd57e3077a578b6e309a2bb6fa688