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cve416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67CVE-2021-47069
HistoryMar 01, 2024 - 10:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-47069

2024-03-0122:15:46
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
688
linux kernel
ipc
mqueue
msg
sem
vulnerability
race
security fix
cve-2021-47069

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry

do_mq_timedreceive calls wq_sleep with a stack local address. The
sender (do_mq_timedsend) uses this address to later call pipelined_send.

This leads to a very hard to trigger race where a do_mq_timedreceive
call might return and leave do_mq_timedsend to rely on an invalid
address, causing the following crash:

RIP: 0010:wake_q_add_safe+0x13/0x60
Call Trace:
__x64_sys_mq_timedsend+0x2a9/0x490
do_syscall_64+0x80/0x680
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
RIP: 0033:0x7f5928e40343

The race occurs as:

  1. do_mq_timedreceive calls wq_sleep with the address of struct ext_wait_queue on function stack (aliased as ewq_addr here) - it
    holds a valid struct ext_wait_queue * as long as the stack has not
    been overwritten.

  2. ewq_addr gets added to info->e_wait_q[RECV].list in wq_add, and
    do_mq_timedsend receives it via wq_get_first_waiter(info, RECV) to call
    __pipelined_op.

  3. Sender calls __pipelined_op::smp_store_release(&this->state,
    STATE_READY). Here is where the race window begins. (this is
    ewq_addr.)

  4. If the receiver wakes up now in do_mq_timedreceive::wq_sleep, it
    will see state == STATE_READY and break.

  5. do_mq_timedreceive returns, and ewq_addr is no longer guaranteed
    to be a struct ext_wait_queue * since it was on do_mq_timedreceive’s
    stack. (Although the address may not get overwritten until another
    function happens to touch it, which means it can persist around for an
    indefinite time.)

  6. do_mq_timedsend::__pipelined_op() still believes ewq_addr is a
    struct ext_wait_queue *, and uses it to find a task_struct to pass to
    the wake_q_add_safe call. In the lucky case where nothing has
    overwritten ewq_addr yet, ewq_addr->task is the right task_struct.
    In the unlucky case, __pipelined_op::wake_q_add_safe gets handed a
    bogus address as the receiver’s task_struct causing the crash.

do_mq_timedsend::__pipelined_op() should not dereference this after
setting STATE_READY, as the receiver counterpart is now free to return.
Change __pipelined_op to call wake_q_add_safe on the receiver’s
task_struct returned by get_task_struct, instead of dereferencing this
which sits on the receiver’s stack.

As Manfred pointed out, the race potentially also exists in
ipc/msg.c::expunge_all and ipc/sem.c::wake_up_sem_queue_prepare. Fix
those in the same way.

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
linuxlinux_kernelRange5.65.10.40
OR
linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.05.12.7
OR
linuxlinux_kernelRange5.13.0
VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "ipc/mqueue.c",
      "ipc/msg.c",
      "ipc/sem.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0d97a82ba830",
        "lessThan": "4528c0c32308",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "0d97a82ba830",
        "lessThan": "807fa14536b2",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "0d97a82ba830",
        "lessThan": "a11ddb37bf36",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "ipc/mqueue.c",
      "ipc/msg.c",
      "ipc/sem.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.6",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.6",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.10.40",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.12.7",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.12.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.13",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%