CVE-2024-35870

2024-05-1909:15:08

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

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux kernel

uaf vulnerability

smb2_reconnect_server

session access

general protection fault

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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

smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server()

The UAF bug is due to smb2_reconnect_server() accessing a session that
is already being teared down by another thread that is executing
__cifs_put_smb_ses(). This can happen when (a) the client has
connection to the server but no session or (b) another thread ends up
setting @ses->ses_status again to something different than
SES_EXITING.

To fix this, we need to make sure to unconditionally set
@ses->ses_status to SES_EXITING and prevent any other threads from
setting a new status while we’re still tearing it down.

The following can be reproduced by adding some delay to right after
the ipc is freed in __cifs_put_smb_ses() - which will give
smb2_reconnect_server() worker a chance to run and then accessing
@ses->ipc:

kinit …
mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt/1 -o sec=krb5,nohandlecache,echo_interval=10
[disconnect srv]
ls /mnt/1 &>/dev/null
sleep 30
kdestroy
[reconnect srv]
sleep 10
umount /mnt/1
…
CIFS: VFS: Verify user has a krb5 ticket and keyutils is installed
CIFS: VFS: \srv Send error in SessSetup = -126
CIFS: VFS: Verify user has a krb5 ticket and keyutils is installed
CIFS: VFS: \srv Send error in SessSetup = -126
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 50 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39
04/01/2014
Workqueue: cifsiod smb2_reconnect_server [cifs]
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x33/0xf0
Code: 4f 08 48 85 d2 74 42 48 85 c9 74 59 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad
de 48 39 c2 74 61 48 b8 22 01 00 00 00 00 74 69 <48> 8b 01 48 39 f8 75
7b 48 8b 72 08 48 39 c6 0f 85 88 00 00 00 b8
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001bfd70 EFLAGS: 00010a83
RAX: dead000000000122 RBX: ffff88810da53838 RCX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
RDX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RSI: ffffffffc02f6878 RDI: ffff88810da53800
RBP: ffff88810da53800 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88810c064000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88810c064000 R15: ffff8881039cc000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888157c00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe3728b1000 CR3: 000000010caa4000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? die_addr+0x36/0x90
? exc_general_protection+0x1c1/0x3f0
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x33/0xf0
__cifs_put_smb_ses+0x1ae/0x500 [cifs]
smb2_reconnect_server+0x4ed/0x710 [cifs]
process_one_work+0x205/0x6b0
worker_thread+0x191/0x360
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe2/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.6.0–6.6.29

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.8.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.9.0≥

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/smb/client/connect.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "6202996a1c18",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "45f2beda1f1b",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "24a9799aa8ef",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/smb/client/connect.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.6.29",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.5",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]