s390: fix double free of GS and RI CBs on fork() failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49990
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390: fix double free of GS and RI CBs on fork() failure The pointers for guarded storage and runtime instrumentation control blocks are stored in the thread_struct of the associated task. These pointers are initially copied on fork() via arch_dup_task_struct() and then cleared via copy_thread() before fork() returns. If fork() happens to fail after the initial task dup and before copy_thread(), the newly allocated task and associated thread_struct memory are freed via free_task() -> arch_release_task_struct(). This results in a double free of the guarded storage and runtime info structs because the fields in the failed task still refer to memory associated with the source task. This problem can manifest as a BUG_ON() in set_freepointer() (with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED enabled) or KASAN splat (if enabled) when running trinity syscall fuzz tests on s390x. To avoid this problem, clear the associated pointer fields in arch_dup_task_struct() immediately after the new task is copied. Note that the RI flag is still cleared in copy_thread() because it resides in thread stack memory and that is where stack info is copied.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < 25a95303b9e513cd2978aacc385d06e6fec23d07 ; affected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < cacd522e6652fbc2dc0cc6ae11c4e30782fef14b ; affected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < 297ae7e87a87a001dd3dfeac1cb26a42fd929708 ; affected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < 8195e065abf3df84eb0ad2987e76a40f21d1791c ; affected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < fbdc482d43eda40a70de4b0155843d5472f6de62 ; affected 8d9047f8b967ce6181fd824ae922978e1b055cc0 < 13cccafe0edcd03bf1c841de8ab8a1c8e34f77d9
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.15 ; unaffected 0 < 4.15 ; unaffected 4.19.257 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.212 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.140 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.64 ≤ 5.15.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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