CVE-2024-57874 — arm64: ptrace: fix partial SETREGSET for NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL

Affected: Linux

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

arm64: ptrace: fix partial SETREGSET for NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL

Currently tagged_addr_ctrl_set() doesn't initialize the temporary 'ctrl' variable, and a SETREGSET call with a length of zero will leave this uninitialized. Consequently tagged_addr_ctrl_set() will consume an arbitrary value, potentially leaking up to 64 bits of memory from the kernel stack. The read is limited to a specific slot on the stack, and the issue does not provide a write mechanism.

As set_tagged_addr_ctrl() only accepts values where bits [63:4] zero and rejects other values, a partial SETREGSET attempt will randomly succeed or fail depending on the value of the uninitialized value, and the exposure is significantly limited.

Fix this by initializing the temporary value before copying the regset from userspace, as for other regsets (e.g. NT_PRSTATUS, NT_PRFPREG, NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL). In the case of a zero-length write, the existing value of the tagged address ctrl will be retained.

The NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL regset is only visible in the user_aarch64_view used by a native AArch64 task to manipulate another native AArch64 task. As get_tagged_addr_ctrl() only returns an error value when called for a compat task, tagged_addr_ctrl_get() and tagged_addr_ctrl_set() should never observe an error value from get_tagged_addr_ctrl(). Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to both to indicate that such an error would be unexpected, and error handlnig is not mi…

USN-7379-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.11

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: - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Drivers core; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Virtio block driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Microsoft Hyper-V drivers; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I3C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - IOMMU subsystem; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Microchip PCI driver; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - NVME drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PHY drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - Power supply drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - i.MX SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - UFS subsystem; - USB Gadget drivers; - TDX Guest driver; - AFS file system; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - File systems infrastructure; - F2FS file system; - JFFS…

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CVE-2024-57874 — arm64: ptrace: fix partial SETREGSET for NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL

USN-7379-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities