Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work
Although the previous patch can avoid ps and ps UAF for _do_serial, it can not avoid potential UAF issue for reorder_work. This issue can happen just as below:
crypto_request crypto_request crypto_del_alg padata_do_serial … padata_reorder // processes all remaining // requests then breaks while (1) { if (!padata) break; … }
padata_do_serial // new request added list_add // sees the new request queue_work(reorder_work) padata_reorder queue_work_on(squeue->work) …
crypto_del_alg // free pd
To avoid UAF for ‘reorder_work’, get ‘pd’ ref before put ‘reorder_work’ into the ‘serial_wq’ and put ‘pd’ ref until the ‘serial_wq’ finish.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.15.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work
Although the previous patch can avoid ps and ps UAF for _do_serial, it can not avoid potential UAF issue for reorder_work. This issue can happen just as below:
crypto_request crypto_request crypto_del_alg padata_do_serial … padata_reorder // processes all remaining // requests then breaks while (1) { if (!padata) break; … }
padata_do_serial // new request added list_add // sees the new request queue_work(reorder_work) padata_reorder queue_work_on(squeue->work) …
crypto_del_alg // free pd
To avoid UAF for ‘reorder_work’, get ‘pd’ ref before put ‘reorder_work’ into the ‘serial_wq’ and put ‘pd’ ref until the ‘serial_wq’ finish.