CVE-2024-26893

2024-04-1711:15:10

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux kernel

firmware

arm_scmi

vulnerability

null pointer

dereference

crash

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free
callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols
might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to
clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport
implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL
pointer dereference at the second time:

| scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
|   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
|   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
|   SET = 0, FnV = 0
|   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
|   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| Data abort info:
|   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
|   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
|   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000
| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793
| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
| pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| Call trace:
|  smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
|  idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8
|  scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58
|  scmi_probe+0x434/0x734
|  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
|  really_probe+0x110/0x27c
|  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
|  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
|  __driver_attach+0x74/0x128
|  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0
|  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
|  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8
|  driver_register+0x60/0x128
|  __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34
|  scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0
|  do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c
|  kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c
|  kernel_init+0x24/0x130
|  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access
its members, to avoid this situation.

This was found when a transport doesn’t really work (for instance no SMC
service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.8–6.1.83

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.23

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.7.11

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.8.0–6.8.2

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.9.0≥

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

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_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": [
      "drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1dc6558062da",
        "lessThan": "0d276d9f335f",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1dc6558062da",
        "lessThan": "857f56db8c3a",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1dc6558062da",
        "lessThan": "8ffaa17ccb1e",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1dc6558062da",
        "lessThan": "ead445dd3d68",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1dc6558062da",
        "lessThan": "f1d71576d2c9",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.8",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.8",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.1.83",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.23",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.2",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]