7.1
HIGH
CVE-2024-50279
Linux dm-cache Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability
Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes out-of-bounds access. Reproduce steps: 1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset) dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80) dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup resume cdata dmsetup resume cache KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131 (...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0 (...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 Fix by making the index post-incremented.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 19, 2024, 2:16 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 27, 2024, 4:01 p.m.

Source :

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.2

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Linux linux_kernel

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  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 27, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE NIST CWE-125
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.13 up to (excluding) 4.19.324 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 4.20 up to (excluding) 5.4.286 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.5 up to (excluding) 5.10.230 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.11 up to (excluding) 5.15.172 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.16 up to (excluding) 6.1.117 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.2 up to (excluding) 6.6.61 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.7 up to (excluding) 6.11.8 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22c No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22c Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2d No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2d Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f Patch
  • CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Nov. 19, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes out-of-bounds access. Reproduce steps: 1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset) dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80) dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup resume cdata dmsetup resume cache KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131 (...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0 (...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 Fix by making the index post-incremented.
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2d [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22c [No types assigned]
    Added Reference kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910 [No types assigned]
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