CVE-2024-26901 do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak

2024-04-1710:27:50

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

do_sys_name_to_handle

kzalloc

kernel-infoleak

syzbot

vulnerability

information leak

chuck lever

memory access

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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

do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak

syzbot identified a kernel information leak vulnerability in
do_sys_name_to_handle() and issued the following report [1].

[1]
"BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
_copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]
do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:73 [inline]
__do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
__se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x949/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
__x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94
…

Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5c9/0x970 mm/slub.c:3517
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
__kmalloc+0x121/0x3c0 mm/slab_common.c:1020
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:39 [inline]
__do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
__se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x441/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
__x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94
…

Bytes 18-19 of 20 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 20 starts at ffff888128a46380
Data copied to user address 0000000020000240"

Per Chuck Lever’s suggestion, use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() to
solve the problem.

CNA Affected

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