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HistoryJul 23, 2024 - 8:06 a.m.

CVE-2024-41012 filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected

2024-07-2308:06:02
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
file locks
fcntl/close race
do_lock_file_wait
lsms
posix_lock_file
use-after-free reads
/proc/locks
kernel memory
locks_remove_posix
filp_flush

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected

When fcntl_setlk() races with close(), it removes the created lock with
do_lock_file_wait().
However, LSMs can allow the first do_lock_file_wait() that created the lock
while denying the second do_lock_file_wait() that tries to remove the lock.
Separately, posix_lock_file() could also fail to
remove a lock due to GFP_KERNEL allocation failure (when splitting a range
in the middle).

After the bug has been triggered, use-after-free reads will occur in
lock_get_status() when userspace reads /proc/locks. This can likely be used
to read arbitrary kernel memory, but can’t corrupt kernel memory.

Fix it by calling locks_remove_posix() instead, which is designed to
reliably get rid of POSIX locks associated with the given file and
files_struct and is also used by filp_flush().

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial