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High severity Unreviewed Published Jan 6, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 8, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

powerpc/pseries/vas: Add close() callback in vas_vm_ops struct

The mapping VMA address is saved in VAS window struct when the
paste address is mapped. This VMA address is used during migration
to unmap the paste address if the window is active. The paste
address mapping will be removed when the window is closed or with
the munmap(). But the VMA address in the VAS window is not updated
with munmap() which is causing invalid access during migration.

The KASAN report shows:
[16386.254991] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in reconfig_close_windows+0x1a0/0x4e8
[16386.255043] Read of size 8 at addr c00000014a819670 by task drmgr/696928

[16386.255096] CPU: 29 UID: 0 PID: 696928 Comm: drmgr Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B 6.11.0-rc5-nxgzip #2
[16386.255128] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
[16386.255148] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected) 0x820200 0xf000007 of:IBM,FW1110.00 (NH1110_016) hv:phyp pSeries
[16386.255181] Call Trace:
[16386.255202] [c00000016b297660] [c0000000018ad0ac] dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xe8 (unreliable)
[16386.255246] [c00000016b297690] [c0000000006e8a90] print_report+0x19c/0x764
[16386.255285] [c00000016b297760] [c0000000006e9490] kasan_report+0x128/0x1f8
[16386.255309] [c00000016b297880] [c0000000006eb5c8] __asan_load8+0xac/0xe0
[16386.255326] [c00000016b2978a0] [c00000000013f898] reconfig_close_windows+0x1a0/0x4e8
[16386.255343] [c00000016b297990] [c000000000140e58] vas_migration_handler+0x3a4/0x3fc
[16386.255368] [c00000016b297a90] [c000000000128848] pseries_migrate_partition+0x4c/0x4c4
...

[16386.256136] Allocated by task 696554 on cpu 31 at 16377.277618s:
[16386.256149] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256163] kasan_save_track+0x34/0x80
[16386.256175] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x58/0x74
[16386.256196] __kasan_slab_alloc+0xb8/0xdc
[16386.256209] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x200/0x3d0
[16386.256225] vm_area_alloc+0x44/0x150
[16386.256245] mmap_region+0x214/0x10c4
[16386.256265] do_mmap+0x5fc/0x750
[16386.256277] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x14c/0x24c
[16386.256292] ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x20c/0x348
[16386.256303] sys_mmap+0xd0/0x160
...

[16386.256350] Freed by task 0 on cpu 31 at 16386.204848s:
[16386.256363] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256374] kasan_save_track+0x34/0x80
[16386.256384] kasan_save_free_info+0x64/0x10c
[16386.256396] __kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x204
[16386.256415] kmem_cache_free+0x128/0x450
[16386.256428] vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0xa8/0xd8
[16386.256441] rcu_do_batch+0x2c8/0xcf0
[16386.256458] rcu_core+0x378/0x3c4
[16386.256473] handle_softirqs+0x20c/0x60c
[16386.256495] do_softirq_own_stack+0x6c/0x88
[16386.256509] do_softirq_own_stack+0x58/0x88
[16386.256521] __irq_exit_rcu+0x1a4/0x20c
[16386.256533] irq_exit+0x20/0x38
[16386.256544] interrupt_async_exit_prepare.constprop.0+0x18/0x2c
...

[16386.256717] Last potentially related work creation:
[16386.256729] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256741] __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xcc/0x12c
[16386.256753] __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x94/0xd04
[16386.256766] vm_area_free+0x28/0x3c
[16386.256778] remove_vma+0xf4/0x114
[16386.256797] do_vmi_align_munmap.constprop.0+0x684/0x870
[16386.256811] __vm_munmap+0xe0/0x1f8
[16386.256821] sys_munmap+0x54/0x6c
[16386.256830] system_call_exception+0x1a0/0x4a0
[16386.256841] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

[16386.256868] The buggy address belongs to the object at c00000014a819670
which belongs to the cache vm_area_struct of size 168
[16386.256887] The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
freed 168-byte region [c00000014a819670, c00000014a819718)

[16386.256915] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[16386.256928] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x14a81
[16386.256950] memcg:c0000000ba430001
[16386.256961] anon flags: 0x43ffff800000000(node=4|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff)
[16386.256975] page_type: 0xfdffffff(slab)
[16386
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 6, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 6, 2025
Last updated Jan 8, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56765

GHSA ID

GHSA-f6j3-h537-397p

Source code

No known source code

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