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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 18, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 22, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

tracing/osnoise: Use a cpumask to know what threads are kthreads

The start_kthread() and stop_thread() code was not always called with the
interface_lock held. This means that the kthread variable could be
unexpectedly changed causing the kthread_stop() to be called on it when it
should not have been, leading to:

while true; do
rtla timerlat top -u -q & PID=$!;
sleep 5;
kill -INT $PID;
sleep 0.001;
kill -TERM $PID;
wait $PID;
done

Causing the following OOPS:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 885 Comm: timerlatu/5 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4-test-00002-gbc754cc76d1b-dirty #125 a533010b71dab205ad2f507188ce8c82203b0254
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:hrtimer_active+0x58/0x300
Code: 48 c1 ee 03 41 54 48 01 d1 48 01 d6 55 53 48 83 ec 20 80 39 00 0f 85 30 02 00 00 49 8b 6f 30 4c 8d 75 10 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <0f> b6 3c 10 4c 89 f0 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 40 38 f8 7c 09 40 84 ff 0f
RSP: 0018:ffff88811d97f940 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88823c6b5b28 RCX: ffffed10478d6b6b
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffed10478d6b6c RDI: ffff88823c6b5b28
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88823c6b5b58 R09: ffff88823c6b5b60
R10: ffff88811d97f957 R11: 0000000000000010 R12: 00000000000a801d
R13: ffff88810d8b35d8 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff88823c6b5b28
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88823c680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000561858ad7258 CR3: 000000007729e001 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
Call Trace:

? die_addr+0x40/0xa0
? exc_general_protection+0x154/0x230
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
? hrtimer_active+0x58/0x300
? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_locks_remove_file+0x10/0x10
hrtimer_cancel+0x15/0x40
timerlat_fd_release+0x8e/0x1f0
? security_file_release+0x43/0x80
__fput+0x372/0xb10
task_work_run+0x11e/0x1f0
? _raw_spin_lock+0x85/0xe0
? __pfx_task_work_run+0x10/0x10
? poison_slab_object+0x109/0x170
? do_exit+0x7a0/0x24b0
do_exit+0x7bd/0x24b0
? __pfx_migrate_enable+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_do_exit+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_read_tsc+0x10/0x10
? ktime_get+0x64/0x140
? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x86/0xe0
do_group_exit+0xb0/0x220
get_signal+0x17ba/0x1b50
? vfs_read+0x179/0xa40
? timerlat_fd_read+0x30b/0x9d0
? __pfx_get_signal+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_timerlat_fd_read+0x10/0x10
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x8c/0x570
? __pfx_arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x10/0x10
? vfs_read+0x179/0xa40
? ksys_read+0xfe/0x1d0
? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xbc/0x130
do_syscall_64+0x74/0x110
? __pfx___rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10
? fpregs_restore_userregs+0xdb/0x1e0
? fpregs_restore_userregs+0xdb/0x1e0
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x116/0x130
? do_syscall_64+0x74/0x110
? do_syscall_64+0x74/0x110
? do_syscall_64+0x74/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79
RIP: 0033:0x7ff0070eca9c
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7ff0070eca72.
RSP: 002b:00007ff006dff8c0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: 00007ff0070eca9c
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007ff006dff9a0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ff006dffde0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ff000000ba0
R10: 00007ff007004b08 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007ff006dff9a0 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 0000000000000008

Modules linked in: snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This is because it would mistakenly call kthread_stop() on a user space
thread making it "exit" before it actually exits.

Since kthread
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 18, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 18, 2024
Last updated Nov 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate

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
None
Integrity
None
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:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-46788

GHSA ID

GHSA-3h89-g9r5-cvx9

Source code

No known source code

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