CVE-2023-52438

CVSS v3.1 7.8 (High)
78% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 9
NVD Status Modified

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

binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback

The mmap read lock is used during the shrinker's callback, which means
that using alloc->vma pointer isn't safe as it can race with munmap().
As of commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in
munmap") the mmap lock is downgraded after the vma has been isolated.

I was able to reproduce this issue by manually adding some delays and
triggering page reclaiming through the shrinker's debug sysfs. The
following KASAN report confirms the UAF:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8
Read of size 8 at addr ffff356ed50e50f0 by task bash/478

CPU: 1 PID: 478 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.6.0-rc5-00055-g1c8b86a3799f-dirty #70
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8
binder_alloc_free_page+0x608/0xadc
__list_lru_walk_one+0x130/0x3b0
list_lru_walk_node+0xc4/0x22c
binder_shrink_scan+0x108/0x1dc
shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x2b4/0x500
full_proxy_write+0xd4/0x140
vfs_write+0x1ac/0x758
ksys_write+0xf0/0x1dc
__arm64_sys_write+0x6c/0x9c

Allocated by task 492:
kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x368
vm_area_alloc+0x2c/0x190
mmap_region+0x258/0x18bc
do_mmap+0x694/0xa60
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x170/0x29c
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x290/0x3a0
__arm64_sys_mmap+0xcc/0x144

Freed by task 491:
kmem_cache_free+0x17c/0x3c8
vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0x74/0x98
rcu_core+0xa38/0x26d4
rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c
__do_softirq+0x2fc/0xd24

Last potentially related work creation:
__call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0xba0
call_rcu+0x10/0x1c
vm_area_free+0x18/0x24
remove_vma+0xe4/0x118
do_vmi_align_munmap.isra.0+0x718/0xb5c
do_vmi_munmap+0xdc/0x1fc
__vm_munmap+0x10c/0x278
__arm64_sys_munmap+0x58/0x7c

Fix this issue by performing instead a vma_lookup() which will fail to
find the vma that was isolated before the mmap lock downgrade. Note that
this option has better performance than upgrading to a mmap write lock
which would increase contention. Plus, mmap_write_trylock() has been
recently removed anyway.

Weaknesses
CWE-416
Use After Free
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Modified
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-02-20 21:15:08
(6 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-06-25 21:15:51
(2 months ago)

Affected Products

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Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel from 4.20.0 version and prior 5.4.268 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 4.20.0 < 5.4.268
  Linux Kernel from 5.5.0 version and prior 5.10.209 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 5.5.0 < 5.10.209
  Linux Kernel from 5.11.0 version and prior 5.15.148 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 5.11.0 < 5.15.148
  Linux Kernel from 5.16.0 version and prior 6.1.74 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 5.16.0 < 6.1.74
  Linux Kernel from 6.2.0 version and prior 6.6.13 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 6.2.0 < 6.6.13
  Linux Kernel from 6.7.0 version and prior 6.7.1 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 6.7.0 < 6.7.1
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