CVE-2024-43914 Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-7834266
- published 27 Aug 2024
- disclosed 26 Aug 2024
How 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:
md/raid5: avoid BUG_ON() while continue reshape after reassembling
Currently, mdadm support --revert-reshape to abort the reshape while reassembling, as the test 07revert-grow. However, following BUG_ON() can be triggerred by the test:
kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:6278! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI irq event stamp: 158985 CPU: 6 PID: 891 Comm: md0_reshape Not tainted 6.9.0-03335-g7592a0b0049a #94 RIP: 0010:reshape_request+0x3f1/0xe60 Call Trace: <TASK> raid5_sync_request+0x43d/0x550 md_do_sync+0xb7a/0x2110 md_thread+0x294/0x2b0 kthread+0x147/0x1c0 ret_from_fork+0x59/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>
Root cause is that --revert-reshape update the raid_disks from 5 to 4, while reshape position is still set, and after reassembling the array, reshape position will be read from super block, then during reshape the checking of 'writepos' that is caculated by old reshape position will fail.
Fix this panic the easy way first, by converting the BUG_ON() to WARN_ON(), and stop the reshape if checkings fail.
Noted that mdadm must fix --revert-shape as well, and probably md/raid should enhance metadata validation as well, however this means reassemble will fail and there must be user tools to fix the wrong metadata.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43914
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c92f8c1c456d556f15cbf51667b385026b2e6a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/305a5170dc5cf3d395bb4c4e9239bca6d0b54b49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b33740c1750a39e046339ff9240e954f0156707
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4811d6e5d9f4090c3e0ff9890eb24077108046ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b33c468d543f6a83de2d61f09fec74b27e19fd2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/775a9ba16c9ffe98fe54ebf14e55d5660f2bf600
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf0ff69a42a3d2d46876d0514ecf13dffc516666
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c384dd4f1fb3b14a2fd199360701cc163ea88705