UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55916
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: util: Avoid accessing a ringbuffer not initialized yet If the KVP (or VSS) daemon starts before the VMBus channel's ringbuffer is fully initialized, we can hit the panic below: hv_utils: Registering HyperV Utility Driver hv_vmbus: registering driver hv_utils ... BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 44 UID: 0 PID: 2552 Comm: hv_kvp_daemon Tainted: G E 6.11.0-rc3+ #1 RIP: 0010:hv_pkt_iter_first+0x12/0xd0 Call Trace: ... vmbus_recvpacket hv_kvp_onchannelcallback vmbus_on_event tasklet_action_common tasklet_action handle_softirqs irq_exit_rcu sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 </IRQ> <TASK> asm_sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 ... kvp_register_done hvt_op_read vfs_read ksys_read __x64_sys_read This can happen because the KVP/VSS channel callback can be invoked even before the channel is fully opened: 1) as soon as hv_kvp_init() -> hvutil_transport_init() creates /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp, the kvp daemon can open the device file immediately and register itself to the driver by writing a message KVP_OP_REGISTER1 to the file (which is handled by kvp_on_msg() ->kvp_handle_handshake()) and reading the file for the driver's response, which is handled by hvt_op_read(), which calls hvt->on_read(), i.e. kvp_register_done(). 2) the problem with kvp_register_done() is that it can cause the channel callback to be called even before the channel is fully opened, and when the channel callback is starting to run, util_probe()-> vmbus_open() may have not initialized the ringbuffer yet, so the callback can hit the panic of NULL pointer dereference. To reproduce the panic consistently, we can add a "ssleep(10)" for KVP in __vmbus_open(), just before the first hv_ringbuffer_init(), and then we unload and reload the driver hv_utils, and run the daemon manually within the 10 seconds. Fix the panic by reordering the steps in util_probe() so the char dev entry used by the KVP or VSS daemon is not created until after vmbus_open() has completed. This reordering prevents the race condition from happening.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: util: Avoid accessing a ringbuffer not initialized yet If the KVP (or VSS) daemon starts before the VMBus channel's ringbuffer is fully initialized, we can hit the panic below: hv_utils: Registering HyperV Utility Driver hv_vmbus: registering driver hv_utils ... BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 44 UID: 0 PID: 2552 Comm: hv_kvp_daemon Tainted: G E 6.11.0-rc3+ #1 RIP: 0010:hv_pkt_iter_first+0x12/0xd0 Call Trace: ... vmbus_recvpacket hv_kvp_onchannelcallback vmbus_on_event tasklet_action_common tasklet_action handle_softirqs irq_exit_rcu sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 </IRQ> <TASK> asm_sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 ... kvp_register_done hvt_op_read vfs_read ksys_read __x64_sys_read This can happen because the KVP/VSS channel callback can be invoked even before the channel is fully opened: 1) as soon as hv_kvp_init() -> hvutil_transport_init() creates /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp, the kvp daemon can open the device file immediately and register itself to the driver by writing a message KVP_OP_REGISTER1 to the file (which is handled by kvp_on_msg() ->kvp_handle_handshake()) and reading the file for the driver's response, which is handled by hvt_op_read(), which calls hvt->on_read(), i.e. kvp_register_done(). 2) the problem with kvp_register_done() is that it can cause the channel callback to be called even before the channel is fully opened, and when the channel callback is starting to run, util_probe()-> vmbus_open() may have not initialized the ringbuffer yet, so the callback can hit the panic of NULL pointer dereference. To reproduce the panic consistently, we can add a "ssleep(10)" for KVP in __vmbus_open(), just before the first hv_ringbuffer_init(), and then we unload and reload the driver hv_utils, and run the daemon manually within the 10 seconds. Fix the panic by reordering the steps in util_probe() so the char dev entry used by the KVP or VSS daemon is not created until after vmbus_open() has completed. This reordering prevents the race condition from happening.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/07a756a49f4b4290b49ea46e089cbe6f79ff8d26
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/042253c57be901bfd19f15b68267442b70f510d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a756a49f4b4290b49ea46e089cbe6f79ff8d26
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dd7a30c6d7f90afcf19e9b072f572ba524d7ec6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/718fe694a334be9d1a89eed22602369ac18d6583
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89fcec5e466b3ac9b376e0d621c71effa1a7983f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d81f4e73aff9b861671df60e5100ad25cc16fbf8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f091a224a2c82f1e302b1768d73bb6332f687321
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-55916
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7379-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7379-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7380-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7381-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7382-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7387-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7387-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7387-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7388-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7389-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7390-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7391-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7392-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7392-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7392-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7392-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7393-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7401-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7407-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7413-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7421-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7458-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7459-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7459-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7463-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7513-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7513-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7513-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7513-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7513-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7514-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7515-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7515-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7522-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7523-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7524-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7539-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7540-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55916