USB: core: Fix deadlock in port "disable" sysfs attribute (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-26933
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Fix deadlock in port "disable" sysfs attribute The show and store callback routines for the "disable" sysfs attribute file in port.c acquire the device lock for the port's parent hub device. This can cause problems if another process has locked the hub to remove it or change its configuration: Removing the hub or changing its configuration requires the hub interface to be removed, which requires the port device to be removed, and device_del() waits until all outstanding sysfs attribute callbacks for the ports have returned. The lock can't be released until then. But the disable_show() or disable_store() routine can't return until after it has acquired the lock. The resulting deadlock can be avoided by calling sysfs_break_active_protection(). This will cause the sysfs core not to wait for the attribute's callback routine to return, allowing the removal to proceed. The disadvantage is that after making this call, there is no guarantee that the hub structure won't be deallocated at any moment. To prevent this, we have to acquire a reference to it first by calling hub_get().

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:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f061f43d7418cb62b8d073e221ec75d3f5b89e17 < 9dac54f08198147f5ec0ec52fcf1bc8ac899ac05 ; affected f061f43d7418cb62b8d073e221ec75d3f5b89e17 < f51849833705dea5b4f9b0c8de714dd87bd6c95c ; affected f061f43d7418cb62b8d073e221ec75d3f5b89e17 < 4facc9421117ba9d8148c73771b213887fec77f7 ; affected f061f43d7418cb62b8d073e221ec75d3f5b89e17 < 73d1589b91f2099e5f6534a8497b7c6b527e064e ; affected f061f43d7418cb62b8d073e221ec75d3f5b89e17 < f4d1960764d8a70318b02f15203a1be2b2554ca1
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.84 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.24 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.12 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8.3 ≤ 6.8.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD