CVE-2024-41001 io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak

2024-07-1212:37:41

Linux

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linux kernel vulnerability

io_uring

sqpoll

memory leak

audit fix

EPSS

Percentile

5.0%

JSON

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

io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak

kmemleak complains that there’s a memory leak related to connect
handling:

unreferenced object 0xffff0001093bdf00 (size 128):
comm “iou-sqp-455”, pid 457, jiffies 4294894164
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
02 00 fa ea 7f 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
backtrace (crc 2e481b1a):
[<00000000c0a26af4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x38
[<000000009c30bb45>] kmalloc_trace+0x228/0x358
[<000000009da9d39f>] __audit_sockaddr+0xd0/0x138
[<0000000089a93e34>] move_addr_to_kernel+0x1a0/0x1f8
[<000000000b4e80e6>] io_connect_prep+0x1ec/0x2d4
[<00000000abfbcd99>] io_submit_sqes+0x588/0x1e48
[<00000000e7c25e07>] io_sq_thread+0x8a4/0x10e4
[<00000000d999b491>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

which can can happen if:

The command type does something on the prep side that triggers an
audit call.
The thread hasn’t done any operations before this that triggered
an audit call inside ->issue(), where we have audit_uring_entry()
and audit_uring_exit().

Work around this by issuing a blanket NOP operation before the SQPOLL
does anything.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "io_uring/sqpoll.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "55c22375cbaa",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "9e810bd99582",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "a40e90d93046",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "c4ce0ab27646",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "io_uring/sqpoll.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.1.96",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.36",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9.7",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.9.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]