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CVE-2024-38596 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_25-default package, versions <1-150600.13.3.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELLIVEPATCH6401506002325DEFAULT-8173628
  • published10 Oct 2024
  • disclosed9 Oct 2024
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Introduced: 9 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-38596  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_25-default to version 1-150600.13.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_25-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_25-default 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:

af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

A data-race condition has been identified in af_unix. In one data path, the write function unix_release_sock() atomically writes to sk->sk_shutdown using WRITE_ONCE. However, on the reader side, unix_stream_sendmsg() does not read it atomically. Consequently, this issue is causing the following KCSAN splat to occur:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_release_sock / unix_stream_sendmsg


write (marked) to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 7270 on cpu 28:
unix_release_sock (net/unix/af_unix.c:640)
unix_release (net/unix/af_unix.c:1050)
sock_close (net/socket.c:659 net/socket.c:1421)
__fput (fs/file_table.c:422)
__fput_sync (fs/file_table.c:508)
__se_sys_close (fs/open.c:1559 fs/open.c:1541)
__x64_sys_close (fs/open.c:1541)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)


read to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 989 on cpu 14:
unix_stream_sendmsg (net/unix/af_unix.c:2273)
__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:745)
____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2584)
__sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2638 net/socket.c:2724)
__x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2753 net/socket.c:2750 net/socket.c:2750)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)


value changed: 0x01 -&gt; 0x03

The line numbers are related to commit dd5a440a31fa ("Linux 6.9-rc7").

Commit e1d09c2c2f57 ("af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown.") addressed a comparable issue in the past regarding sk->sk_shutdown. However, it overlooked resolving this particular data path. This patch only offending unix_stream_sendmsg() function, since the other reads seem to be protected by unix_state_lock() as discussed in

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