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HistoryJun 03, 2024 - 7:49 a.m.

CVE-2024-36961 thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug

2024-06-0307:49:59
Linux
www.cve.org
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linux kernel
vulnerability
thermal zone
debugfs
locking
null pointer dereference
mitigation file
struct thermal_debugfs
debugfs_create_file
thermal_debug_tz_add
tze_seq_start
tze_seq_next
tze_seq_stop
tze_seq_show
thermal_debug_tz_remove
threading
tz->lock

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

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

thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug

With the current thermal zone locking arrangement in the debugfs code,
user space can open the “mitigations” file for a thermal zone before
the zone’s debugfs pointer is set which will result in a NULL pointer
dereference in tze_seq_start().

Moreover, thermal_debug_tz_remove() is not called under the thermal
zone lock, so it can run in parallel with the other functions accessing
the thermal zone’s struct thermal_debugfs object. Then, it may clear
tz->debugfs after one of those functions has checked it and the
struct thermal_debugfs object may be freed prematurely.

To address the first problem, pass a pointer to the thermal zone’s
struct thermal_debugfs object to debugfs_create_file() in
thermal_debug_tz_add() and make tze_seq_start(), tze_seq_next(),
tze_seq_stop(), and tze_seq_show() retrieve it from s->private
instead of a pointer to the thermal zone object. This will ensure
that tz_debugfs will be valid across the “mitigations” file accesses
until thermal_debugfs_remove_id() called by thermal_debug_tz_remove()
removes that file.

To address the second problem, use tz->lock in thermal_debug_tz_remove()
around the tz->debugfs value check (in case the same thermal zone is
removed at the same time in two different threads) and its reset to NULL.

Cc :6.8+ <[email protected]> # 6.8+

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "7ef01f228c9f",
        "lessThan": "6c57bdd05054",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "7ef01f228c9f",
        "lessThan": "c7f7c3727178",
        "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/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.8",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.8",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.10",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

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