CVE-2024-26935 Affecting kernel-modules-core package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4
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- published12 Dec 2024
- disclosed1 May 2024
Introduced: 1 May 2024
CVE-2024-26935 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-modules-core to version 0:5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:8617.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-core package and not the kernel-modules-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:
scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression
Commit fc663711b944 ("scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier") fixed a bug related to modules loading/unloading, by adding a call to scsi_proc_hostdir_rm() on scsi_remove_host(). But that led to a potential duplicate call to the hostdir_rm() routine, since it's also called from scsi_host_dev_release(). That triggered a regression report, which was then fixed by commit be03df3d4bfe ("scsi: core: Fix a procfs host directory removal regression"). The fix just dropped the hostdir_rm() call from dev_release().
But it happens that this proc directory is created on scsi_host_alloc(), and that function "pairs" with scsi_host_dev_release(), while scsi_remove_host() pairs with scsi_add_host(). In other words, it seems the reason for removing the proc directory on dev_release() was meant to cover cases in which a SCSI host structure was allocated, but the call to scsi_add_host() didn't happen. And that pattern happens to exist in some error paths, for example.
Syzkaller causes that by using USB raw gadget device, error'ing on usb-storage driver, at usb_stor_probe2(). By checking that path, we can see that the BadDevice label leads to a scsi_host_put() after a SCSI host allocation, but there's no call to scsi_add_host() in such path. That leads to messages like this in dmesg (and a leak of the SCSI host proc structure):
usb-storage 4-1:87.51: USB Mass Storage device detected proc_dir_entry 'scsi/usb-storage' already registered WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3519 at fs/proc/generic.c:377 proc_register+0x347/0x4e0 fs/proc/generic.c:376
The proper fix seems to still call scsi_proc_hostdir_rm() on dev_release(), but guard that with the state check for SHOST_CREATED; there is even a comment in scsi_host_dev_release() detailing that: such conditional is meant for cases where the SCSI host was allocated but there was no calls to {add,remove}_host(), like the usb-storage case.
This is what we propose here and with that, the error path of usb-storage does not trigger the warning anymore.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26935
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0053f15d50d50c9312d8ab9c11e2e405812dfcac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3678cf67ff7136db1dd3bf63c361650db5d92889
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c2386ba80e779a92ec3bb64ccadbedd88f779b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea234bb214b17d004dfdccce4491e6ff57c96ee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4c34782b6d7b1e68d18d9549451b19433bd4c6c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e293c773c13b830cdc251f155df2254981abc320
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f23a4d6e07570826fe95023ca1aa96a011fa9f84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4ff08fab66eb5c0b97e1a24edac052fb40bf5d7
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html