N/A - CVE-2024-53216

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2024-53216	First vendor Publication	2024-12-27
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-02-11

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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

nfsd: release svc_expkey/svc_export with rcu_work

The last reference for `cache_head` can be reduced to zero in `c_show` and `e_show`(using `rcu_read_lock` and `rcu_read_unlock`). Consequently, `svc_export_put` and `expkey_put` will be invoked, leading to two issues:

1. The `svc_export_put` will directly free ex_uuid. However,
`e_show`/`c_show` will access `ex_uuid` after `cache_put`, which can
trigger a use-after-free issue, shown below.

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in svc_export_show+0x362/0x430 [nfsd]
Read of size 1 at addr ff11000010fdc120 by task cat/870

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 870 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3a0
print_report+0xb9/0x280
kasan_report+0xae/0xe0
svc_export_show+0x362/0x430 [nfsd]
c_show+0x161/0x390 [sunrpc]
seq_read_iter+0x589/0x770
seq_read+0x1e5/0x270
proc_reg_read+0xe1/0x140
vfs_read+0x125/0x530
ksys_read+0xc1/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Allocated by task 830:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x1bc/0x400
kmemdup_noprof+0x22/0x50
svc_export_parse+0x8a9/0xb80 [nfsd]
cache_do_downcall+0x71/0xa0 [sunrpc]
cache_write_procfs+0x8e/0xd0 [sunrpc]
proc_reg_write+0xe1/0x140
vfs_write+0x1a5/0x6d0
ksys_write+0xc1/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Freed by task 868:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50
kfree+0xf3/0x3e0
svc_export_put+0x87/0xb0 [nfsd]
cache_purge+0x17f/0x1f0 [sunrpc]
nfsd_destroy_serv+0x226/0x2d0 [nfsd]
nfsd_svc+0x125/0x1e0 [nfsd]
write_threads+0x16a/0x2a0 [nfsd]
nfsctl_transaction_write+0x74/0xa0 [nfsd]
vfs_write+0x1a5/0x6d0
ksys_write+0xc1/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

2. We cannot sleep while using `rcu_read_lock`/`rcu_read_unlock`.
However, `svc_export_put`/`expkey_put` will call path_put, which
subsequently triggers a sleeping operation due to the following
`dput`.

=============================
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.10.0-dirty #141 Not tainted
-----------------------------
...
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x9a/0xd0
___might_sleep+0x231/0x240
dput+0x39/0x600
path_put+0x1b/0x30
svc_export_put+0x17/0x80
e_show+0x1c9/0x200
seq_read_iter+0x63f/0x7c0
seq_read+0x226/0x2d0
vfs_read+0x113/0x2c0
ksys_read+0xc9/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Fix these issues by using `rcu_work` to help release `svc_expkey`/`svc_export`. This approach allows for an asynchronous context to invoke `path_put` and also facilitates the freeing of `uuid/exp/key` after an RCU grace period.