CVE-2023-52638

2024-04-0315:15:51

Linux

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linux kernel

vulnerability

race condition

fix

deadlock

j1939

rwlock

syzbot bug

reference counting

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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

can: j1939: prevent deadlock by changing j1939_socks_lock to rwlock

The following 3 locks would race against each other, causing the
deadlock situation in the Syzbot bug report:

j1939_socks_lock
active_session_list_lock
sk_session_queue_lock

A reasonable fix is to change j1939_socks_lock to an rwlock, since in
the rare situations where a write lock is required for the linked list
that j1939_socks_lock is protecting, the code does not attempt to
acquire any more locks. This would break the circular lock dependency,
where, for example, the current thread already locks j1939_socks_lock
and attempts to acquire sk_session_queue_lock, and at the same time,
another thread attempts to acquire j1939_socks_lock while holding
sk_session_queue_lock.

NOTE: This patch along does not fix the unregister_netdevice bug
reported by Syzbot; instead, it solves a deadlock situation to prepare
for one or more further patches to actually fix the Syzbot bug, which
appears to be a reference counting problem within the j1939 codebase.

[mkl: remove unrelated newline change]

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.15.0–5.15.149

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0–6.1.79

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.18

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.7.6

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.8.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

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    "programFiles": [
      "net/can/j1939/j1939-priv.h",
      "net/can/j1939/main.c",
      "net/can/j1939/socket.c"
    ],
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      },
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        "status": "unaffected",
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