NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-coco_debug package, versions <6.4.0-15061.6.coco15sp6.1
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- published9 Oct 2024
- disclosed8 Oct 2024
Introduced: 8 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-46693 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-coco_debug to version 6.4.0-15061.6.coco15sp6.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-coco_debug package and not the kernel-coco_debug 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:
soc: qcom: pmic_glink: Fix race during initialization
As pointed out by Stephen Boyd it is possible that during initialization of the pmic_glink child drivers, the protection-domain notifiers fires, and the associated work is scheduled, before the client registration returns and as a result the local "client" pointer has been initialized.
The outcome of this is a NULL pointer dereference as the "client" pointer is blindly dereferenced.
Timeline provided by Stephen: CPU0 CPU1
ucsi->client = NULL; devm_pmic_glink_register_client() client->pdr_notify(client->priv, pg->client_state) pmic_glink_ucsi_pdr_notify() schedule_work(&ucsi->register_work) <schedule away> pmic_glink_ucsi_register() ucsi_register() pmic_glink_ucsi_read_version() pmic_glink_ucsi_read() pmic_glink_ucsi_read() pmic_glink_send(ucsi->client) <client is NULL BAD> ucsi->client = client // Too late!
This code is identical across the altmode, battery manager and usci child drivers.
Resolve this by splitting the allocation of the "client" object and the registration thereof into two operations.
This only happens if the protection domain registry is populated at the time of registration, which by the introduction of commit '1ebcde047c54 ("soc: qcom: add pd-mapper implementation")' became much more likely.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46693.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230521
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1efdbf5323c9360e05066049b97414405e94e087
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3568affcddd68743e25aa3ec1647d9b82797757b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/943b0e7cc646a624bb20a68080f8f1a4a55df41c