NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.17.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-7648697
- published 8 Aug 2024
- disclosed 7 Aug 2024
Introduced: 7 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-36930 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb-devel package and not the kernel-64kb-devel package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: fix null pointer dereference within spi_sync
If spi_sync() is called with the non-empty queue and the same spi_message is then reused, the complete callback for the message remains set while the context is cleared, leading to a null pointer dereference when the callback is invoked from spi_finalize_current_message().
With function inlining disabled, the call stack might look like this:
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave from complete_with_flags+0x18/0x58 complete_with_flags from spi_complete+0x8/0xc spi_complete from spi_finalize_current_message+0xec/0x184 spi_finalize_current_message from spi_transfer_one_message+0x2a8/0x474 spi_transfer_one_message from __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x104/0x230 __spi_pump_transfer_message from __spi_transfer_message_noqueue+0x30/0xc4 __spi_transfer_message_noqueue from __spi_sync+0x204/0x248 __spi_sync from spi_sync+0x24/0x3c spi_sync from mcp251xfd_regmap_crc_read+0x124/0x28c [mcp251xfd] mcp251xfd_regmap_crc_read [mcp251xfd] from _regmap_raw_read+0xf8/0x154 _regmap_raw_read from _regmap_bus_read+0x44/0x70 _regmap_bus_read from _regmap_read+0x60/0xd8 _regmap_read from regmap_read+0x3c/0x5c regmap_read from mcp251xfd_alloc_can_err_skb+0x1c/0x54 [mcp251xfd] mcp251xfd_alloc_can_err_skb [mcp251xfd] from mcp251xfd_irq+0x194/0xe70 [mcp251xfd] mcp251xfd_irq [mcp251xfd] from irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x78 irq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x118/0x1f4 irq_thread from kthread+0xd8/0xf4 kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28
Fix this by also setting message->complete to NULL when the transfer is complete.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36930.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225830
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2070d008cc08bff50a58f0f4d30f12d3ebf94c00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4756fa529b2f12b7cb8f21fe229b0f6f47190829
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a30659f1576d2c8e62e7426232bb18b885fd951a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e005d6754e3e440257006795b687c4ad8733b493