Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-6974977
- published 22 May 2024
- disclosed 21 May 2024
Introduced: 21 May 2024
CVE-2021-47343 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds
remove_raw() in dm_btree_remove() may fail due to IO read error (e.g. read the content of origin block fails during shadowing), and the value of shadow_spine::root is uninitialized, but the uninitialized value is still assign to new_root in the end of dm_btree_remove().
For dm-thin, the value of pmd->details_root or pmd->root will become an uninitialized value, so if trying to read details_info tree again out-of-bound memory may occur as showed below:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3fdcb14c8d7520 CPU: 4 PID: 515 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 5.13.0-rc6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC RIP: 0010:metadata_ll_load_ie+0x14/0x30 Call Trace: sm_metadata_count_is_more_than_one+0xb9/0xe0 dm_tm_shadow_block+0x52/0x1c0 shadow_step+0x59/0xf0 remove_raw+0xb2/0x170 dm_btree_remove+0xf4/0x1c0 dm_pool_delete_thin_device+0xc3/0x140 pool_message+0x218/0x2b0 target_message+0x251/0x290 ctl_ioctl+0x1c4/0x4d0 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xe/0x20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x40/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Fixing it by only assign new_root when removal succeeds
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47343
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c84b3e0728ffe10d89c633694c35a02b5c477dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73f27adaa73e3057a9ec464e33c4f54d34ea5de3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bf942314b78d454db92427201421b5dec132d9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fbae4a1bdb5b889490cdee929e68540151536e5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/964d57d1962d7e68f0f578f05d9ae4a104d74851
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad365e9351ac2b450e7e79932ff6abf59342d91a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6e58b5466b2959f83034bead2e2e1395cca8aeb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba47e65a5de3e0e8270301a409fc63d3129fdb9e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c154775619186781aaf8a99333ac07437a1768d5