7.8 - CVE-2024-53168

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

sunrpc: fix one UAF issue caused by sunrpc kernel tcp socket

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_write_timer_handler+0x156/0x3e0 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888111f322cd by task swapper/0/0

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-dirty #7 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3d0
print_report+0xb4/0x270
kasan_report+0xbd/0xf0
tcp_write_timer_handler+0x156/0x3e0
tcp_write_timer+0x66/0x170
call_timer_fn+0xfb/0x1d0
__run_timers+0x3f8/0x480
run_timer_softirq+0x9b/0x100
handle_softirqs+0x153/0x390
__irq_exit_rcu+0x103/0x120
irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90


asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xf/0x20 Code: 4c 01 c7 4c 29 c2 e9 72 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 33 f8 25 00 fb f4 c3 cc cc cc
cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffffffa2007e28 EFLAGS: 00000242 RAX: 00000000000f3b31 RBX: 1ffffffff4400fc7 RCX: ffffffffa09c3196 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff9f00590f RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed102360835d R10: ffff88811b041aeb R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffffffa202d7c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000147d0
default_idle_call+0x6b/0xa0
cpuidle_idle_call+0x1af/0x1f0
do_idle+0xbc/0x130
cpu_startup_entry+0x33/0x40
rest_init+0x11f/0x210
start_kernel+0x39a/0x420
x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
x86_64_start_kernel+0x97/0xa0
common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141

Allocated by task 595:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x87/0x90
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x12b/0x3f0
copy_net_ns+0x94/0x380
create_new_namespaces+0x24c/0x500
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x75/0xf0
ksys_unshare+0x24e/0x4f0
__x64_sys_unshare+0x1f/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x70/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Freed by task 100:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x54/0x70
kmem_cache_free+0x156/0x5d0
cleanup_net+0x5d3/0x670
process_one_work+0x776/0xa90
worker_thread+0x2e2/0x560
kthread+0x1a8/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Reproduction script:

mkdir -p /mnt/nfsshare mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/netns_1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb mount /dev/sdb /mnt/nfsshare systemctl restart nfs-server chmod 777 /mnt/nfsshare exportfs -i -o rw,no_root_squash *:/mnt/nfsshare

ip netns add netns_1 ip link add name veth_1_peer type veth peer veth_1 ifconfig veth_1_peer 11.11.0.254 up ip link set veth_1 netns netns_1 ip netns exec netns_1 ifconfig veth_1 11.11.0.1

ip netns exec netns_1 /root/iptables -A OUTPUT -d 11.11.0.254 -p tcp \
--tcp-flags FIN FIN -j DROP

(note: In my environment, a DESTROY_CLIENTID operation is always sent
immediately, breaking the nfs tcp connection.) ip netns exec netns_1 timeout -s 9 300 mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,vers=4.1 \
11.11.0.254:/mnt/nfsshare /mnt/nfs/netns_1

ip netns del netns_1

The reason here is that the tcp socket in netns_1 (nfs side) has been shutdown and closed (done in xs_destroy), but the FIN message (with ack) is discarded, and the nfsd side keeps sending retransmission messages. As a result, when the tcp sock in netns_1 processes the received message, it sends the message (FIN message) in the sending queue, and the tcp timer is re-established. When the network namespace is deleted, the net structure accessed by tcp's timer handler function causes problems.

To fix this problem, let's hold netns refcnt for the tcp kernel socket as done in other modules. This is an ugly hack which can easily be backported to earlier kernels. A proper fix which cleans up the interfaces will follow, but may not be so easy to backport.