Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: RISC-V: Remove PERFHESSTOPPED flag checking in riscvpmustart Since commit 096b52fd2bb4 “perf: RISC-V: throttle perf events”, the perfsampleeventtook function was added to report time spent in overflow interrupts. If the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Ensure that the swevent hrtimer is properly destroyed. With the change to hrtimertrytocancel in perfsweventcancelhrtimer, it appears possible for the hrtimer to still be active by the time the event is freed. Make sure that...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf/core: Fixed a reference count bug and a potential UAF in perfmmap. Syzkaller reported a refcountt issue where the increment of the reference count was set to 0; there was also a warning about a use-after-free when using...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf tool x86: Fixed the memory leak in perfenv. Detected by LeakSanitizer: ==1632594==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks Direct leak of 21 bytes in 1 objects allocated from: 0 0x7f2953a7077b in interceptorstrdup...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf: RISCV: Fix for panic occurring in the pmu overflow handler 1 idx of int is not desired when setting bits in unsigned long overflowctrs; use BIT instead. This panic occurs when running ‘perf record -e branches’ on sophgo...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86: Fixed NULL pointer access and potential loss of PEBS records When the intelpmudrainpebsicl function is called to drain PEBS records, the perfeventoverflow function might be called to process the last PEBS record. The...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Fixed the unconditional use of the securitylockeddown function. Currently, the lockdown state is queried unconditionally, even though its result is only used if the PERFSAMPLEREGSINTR bit is set in attr.sampletype. Whi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9064/1: hwbreakpoint: Do not directly check the event’s overflowhandler hook The commit 1879445dfa7b “perf/core: Set event’s default ::overflowhandler” sets a default event-overflowhandler in perfeventalloc, and replaces the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Improved missing SIGTRAP checks To detect missing SIGTRAP checks, we use a WARN in perfeventoverflow. This warning is triggered if pendingsigtrap was already set—meaning the process returns to user space without consuming...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Fixed an invalid wait context in ctxschedin Lockdep identified a bug in event scheduling when a pinned event failed, causing threads in the ring buffer to be awakened as follows. It seems that the wait-queue lock shoul...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: “perf trace: Really free the evsel-priv area” In 3cb4d5e00e037c70 “perf trace: Free syscall tp fields in evsel-priv”, it only freed the area if strcmpevsel-tpformat-system, “syscalls” returned zero. However, the initialization of...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf/x86/amd: Fixed a crash that occurred due to a race between amdpmuenableall, perf NMI, and throttling. amdpmuenableall does the following: if !testbitidx, cpuc-activemask continue; amdpmuenableeventcpuc-eventsidx; A perf N...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fixed an oops during rmmod on single-CPU platforms. During the removal of the idxd driver, a registered offline callback was invoked as part of the cleanup process. However, on systems with only one CPU online, n...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fixed the refcount warning when incrementing event-mmapcount. When calling refcountinc&event-mmapcount within perfmmaprb, the following warning is triggered: c refcountt: Addition on 0; use-after-free. WARNING:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf: Fixed list corruption in perfcgroupswitch. There is list corruption in cgrpcpuctxlist. This occurs at the following path: perfcgroupswitch: listforeachentrycgrpcpuctxlist cpuctxschedin ctxschedin ctxpinnedschedin...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: perf/x86/intel: Fixed an access error when accessing the IA32PMCxCFGB MSRs When running perffuzzer on PTL, sometimes the “unchecked MSR access error” is observed when accessing the IA32PMCxCFGB MSRs. 55.611268 Unchecked MSR...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Fixed a data race between perfeventsetoutput and perfmmapclose. Yang Jihing reported a race between perfeventsetoutput and perfmmapclose: CPU1 CPU2 perfmmapclosee2 if atomicdecandtest&e2-rb-mmapcount // 1 - 0 then...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix for perfpendingtask UaF According to syzbot, it is possible for perfpendingtask to continue running after the event has been freed. There are two related but distinct cases: - The taskwork was already queued before the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: tmc: Added the handle of the event to the path. The handle is essential for retrieving the AUXEVENT of each CPU and is required in perf mode. It has been added to the coresightpath so that dependent devices can access ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Performance Events system can be exploited to gain local privilege escalation. The perfgroupdetach function did not check the attachstate of the event’s siblings before calling addeventtogroups; moreover, removeonexec allowed calling listdelevent...