CVE-2024-42254 io_uring: fix error pbuf checking

2024-08-0808:49:14

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

vulnerability

error handling

kasan

memory leak

EPSS

Percentile

9.5%

JSON

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

io_uring: fix error pbuf checking

Syz reports a problem, which boils down to NULL vs IS_ERR inconsistent
error handling in io_alloc_pbuf_ring().

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:__io_remove_buffers+0xac/0x700 io_uring/kbuf.c:341
Call Trace:
<TASK>
io_put_bl io_uring/kbuf.c:378 [inline]
io_destroy_buffers+0x14e/0x490 io_uring/kbuf.c:392
io_ring_ctx_free+0xa00/0x1070 io_uring/io_uring.c:2613
io_ring_exit_work+0x80f/0x8a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:2844
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312
worker_thread+0x86d/0xd40 kernel/workqueue.c:3390
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

CNA Affected

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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "io_uring/kbuf.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "87585b05757d",
        "lessThan": "68d19af95a35",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "87585b05757d",
        "lessThan": "bcc87d978b83",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
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    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "io_uring/kbuf.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.10",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
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        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10.1",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
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