CVE-2024-39486 — drm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race

Affected: Linux

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

drm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race

<maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

filp->pid is supposed to be a refcounted pointer; however, before this patch, drm_file_update_pid() only increments the refcount of a struct pid after storing a pointer to it in filp->pid and dropping the dev->filelist_mutex, making the following race possible:

process A process B ========= ========= begin drm_file_update_pid mutex_lock(&dev->filelist_mutex) rcu_replace_pointer(filp->pid, <pid B>, 1) mutex_unlock(&dev->filelist_mutex) begin drm_file_update_pid mutex_lock(&dev->filelist_mutex) rcu_replace_pointer(filp->pid, <pid A>, 1) mutex_unlock(&dev->filelist_mutex) get_pid(<pid A>) synchronize_rcu() put_pid(<pid B>) *** pid B reaches refcount 0 and is freed here *** get_pid(<pid B>) *** UAF *** synchronize_rcu() put_pid(<pid A>)

As far as I know, this race can only occur with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y because it requires RCU to detect a quiescent state in code that is not explicitly calling into the scheduler.

This race leads to use-after-free of a "struct pid". It is probably somewhat hard to hit because process A has to pass through a synchronize_rcu() ope…

USN-7089-1 — linux, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp-6.8, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.8, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25741)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PA-RISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Null block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Cdrom driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - Cirrus firmware drivers; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - ISDN/mISDN subsystem; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Near Field Communication (NFC) drivers; - NVME drivers; - NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; - PCI subsystem; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI drivers; - Thermal drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - USB DSL drivers; - USB core drivers; - DesignWare USB3 driver; - USB Gadget dr…

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CVE-2024-39486 — drm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race

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