Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu-tasks: Fixed an issue where the non-existent percpu rtpcp variable was accessed in rcutasksneedgpcb. For kernels built with CONFIGFORCENRCPUS=y, nrcpuids is defined as NRCPUS instead of the number of possible CPUs. This can...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ima: Avoid blocking in the RCU read-side critical section. A panic occurs in imamatchpolicy: BUG: Unable to handle a NULL pointer dereferencing in the kernel at 0000000000000010. PGD 42f873067 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 1 SMP NOPTI CPU:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to rcuirqenterchecktick being kprobed. Registering a kprobe for rcuirqenterchecktick can cause a kernel stack overflow, as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling CONFIGNOHZFULL and...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: bpf: Fixed a race condition between bpftimercancelandfree and bpftimercancel. This race condition could lead to a UAF Use-After-Free error involving the timer-timer variable. Here’s the detailed explanation: In bpftimer...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net:sched: Fix for use-after-free in tapriochange In tapriochange, the admin pointer may become dangling due to the sched switch/removal caused by advancesched. The critical section protected by q-currententrylock is too small to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fixed a UAF Use-after-Allocation issue by correcting mismatching between the bpfprog/attachment and tasks-trace-RCU flavors. Uprobes always use bpfprogrunarrayuprobe under tasks-trace-RCU protection. However, it is possible ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: rcutorture: Fixed the issue where ksoftirqd’s timing and iteration were increased. The RCU priority boosting can fail in two situations: 1 If nrcpus maxcpus, meaning that the total number of CPUs is greater than the number of...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ipv6: mcast: added RCU protection to mldnewpack The mldnewpack function can be called without holding RTNL or RCU. It should be noted that we can no longer use sockallocsendskb, because ipv6.igmpsk relies on GFPKERNEL...

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: mpls: Use rcudereferencertnl in mplsrouteinputrcu. As reported by syzbot 0, mplsrouteinputrcu can be called from mplsgetroute, which is under RTNL. net-mpls.platformlabel is only updated under RTNL. Let’s use rcudereferencertnl i...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlinkqueue: acquire rcureadlock in instancedestroyrcu syzbot reported that nfreinject could be called without rcureadlock : WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a 0 Not tainted...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: wilc1000 – Fixed RCU usage in the connect path. With lockdep enabled, calls to the connect function from the cfg802.11 layer lead to the following warning: ============================= WARNING: Suspicious RCU usage...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ila: Call nfunregisternethooks earlier. Syzbot discovered a use-after-free in ilanfinput 1. The issue arises from ilaxlatexitnet freeing the rhashtable, followed by the call to nfunregisternethooks. This should be done in the...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ftrace: Fixed a possible use-after-free issue in ftracelocation. KASAN reports a bug: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftracelocation+0x90/0x120 Reading an 8-byte value at address ffff888141d40010 by task insmod/424 CPU: 8 PID: 4...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: preventing infinite loops in rt6nlmsgsize During testing of the previous patch, I was able to trigger an infinite loop in rt6nlmsgsize at the following location: listforeachentryrcusibling, &f6i-fib6siblings, fib6siblings...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Use RCU in ip6xmit The use of RCU in ip6xmit is necessary in order to use dstdevrcu and prevent possible UAF Use-After-Free vulnerabilities...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ipv6: prevented UAF in ip6sendskb syzbot reported a UAF in ip6sendskb 1 After ip6localout has returned, we no longer can safely dereference rt, unless we hold rcureadlock. A similar issue was fixed in the commit a688caa34beb...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables – Use a timestamp to check for set element timeout. A timestamp field was added at the beginning of the transaction; it is stored in the nftablespernetns area. The .insert, .deactivate, and syncgc functions...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: Use RCU protection in iprtupdatepmtu. iprtupdatepmtu must use RCU protection to ensure that the network structure it reads does not disappear...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fixed the “scheduling while atomic” issue in mptcppmnl.AppendNewLocalAddr. If multiple connection requests attempt to create an implicit mptcp endpoint simultaneously, more than one caller may end up using...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: In OpenVSwitch, the defertunnelnetdevput function is delayed until the RCU callback is executed. The ovsnetdevtunnelDestroy function may be executed after NETDEVUNREGISTER has already detached the device. Dropping the reference t...