CVE-2024-35860 Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default package, versions <1-150500.11.3.1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELLIVEPATCH514211505005568DEFAULT-7391752
- published26 Jun 2024
- disclosed25 Jun 2024
Introduced: 25 Jun 2024
CVE-2024-35860 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default to version 1-150500.11.3.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: support deferring bpf_link dealloc to after RCU grace period
BPF link for some program types is passed as a "context" which can be used by those BPF programs to look up additional information. E.g., for multi-kprobes and multi-uprobes, link is used to fetch BPF cookie values.
Because of this runtime dependency, when bpf_link refcnt drops to zero there could still be active BPF programs running accessing link data.
This patch adds generic support to defer bpf_link dealloc callback to after RCU GP, if requested. This is done by exposing two different deallocation callbacks, one synchronous and one deferred. If deferred one is provided, bpf_link_free() will schedule dealloc_deferred() callback to happen after RCU GP.
BPF is using two flavors of RCU: "classic" non-sleepable one and RCU tasks trace one. The latter is used when sleepable BPF programs are used. bpf_link_free() accommodates that by checking underlying BPF program's sleepable flag, and goes either through normal RCU GP only for non-sleepable, or through RCU tasks trace GP and then normal RCU GP (taking into account rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() optimization), if BPF program is sleepable.
We use this for multi-kprobe and multi-uprobe links, which dereference link during program run. We also preventively switch raw_tp link to use deferred dealloc callback, as upcoming changes in bpf-next tree expose raw_tp link data (specifically, cookie value) to BPF program at runtime as well.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35860.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224531
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a80dbcb2dbaf6e4c216e62e30fa7d3daa8001ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8d447777564b35f67000e7838e7ccb64d525c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/876941f533e7b47fc69977fc4551c02f2d18af97