CVE - CVE-2024-43853

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CVE-2024-43853	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup/cpuset: Prevent UAF in proc_cpuset_show() An UAF can happen when /proc/cpuset is read as reported in [1]. This can be reproduced by the following methods: 1.add an mdelay(1000) before acquiring the cgroup_lock In the cgroup_path_ns function. 2.$cat /proc/<pid>/cpuset repeatly. 3.$mount -t cgroup -o cpuset cpuset /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/ $umount /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/ repeatly. The race that cause this bug can be shown as below: (umount) \| (cat /proc/<pid>/cpuset) css_release \| proc_cpuset_show css_release_work_fn \| css = task_get_css(tsk, cpuset_cgrp_id); css_free_rwork_fn \| cgroup_path_ns(css->cgroup, ...); cgroup_destroy_root \| mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex); rebind_subsystems \| cgroup_free_root \| \| // cgrp was freed, UAF \| cgroup_path_ns_locked(cgrp,..); When the cpuset is initialized, the root node top_cpuset.css.cgrp will point to &cgrp_dfl_root.cgrp. In cgroup v1, the mount operation will allocate cgroup_root, and top_cpuset.css.cgrp will point to the allocated &cgroup_root.cgrp. When the umount operation is executed, top_cpuset.css.cgrp will be rebound to &cgrp_dfl_root.cgrp. The problem is that when rebinding to cgrp_dfl_root, there are cases where the cgroup_root allocated by setting up the root for cgroup v1 is cached. This could lead to a Use-After-Free (UAF) if it is subsequently freed. The descendant cgroups of cgroup v1 can only be freed after the css is released. However, the css of the root will never be released, yet the cgroup_root should be freed when it is unmounted. This means that obtaining a reference to the css of the root does not guarantee that css.cgrp->root will not be freed. Fix this problem by using rcu_read_lock in proc_cpuset_show(). As cgroup_root is kfree_rcu after commit d23b5c577715 ("cgroup: Make operations on the cgroup root_list RCU safe"), css->cgroup won't be freed during the critical section. To call cgroup_path_ns_locked, css_set_lock is needed, so it is safe to replace task_get_css with task_css. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9b1ff7be974a403aa4cd
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be59c97c83ccd67a519d8a49486b3a8a73ca28a URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be59c97c83ccd67a519d8a49486b3a8a73ca28a MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a8d4e02fd4840028c38ceb1536cc8f82a257d4 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a8d4e02fd4840028c38ceb1536cc8f82a257d4 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29ac1d238b3bf126af36037df80d7ecc4822341e URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29ac1d238b3bf126af36037df80d7ecc4822341e MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96226fbed566f3f686f53a489a29846f2d538080 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96226fbed566f3f686f53a489a29846f2d538080
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Date Record Created
20240817	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20240817)
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