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High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 11, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

smb: prevent use-after-free due to open_cached_dir error paths

If open_cached_dir() encounters an error parsing the lease from the
server, the error handling may race with receiving a lease break,
resulting in open_cached_dir() freeing the cfid while the queued work is
pending.

Update open_cached_dir() to drop refs rather than directly freeing the
cfid.

Have cached_dir_lease_break(), cfids_laundromat_worker(), and
invalidate_all_cached_dirs() clear has_lease immediately while still
holding cfids->cfid_list_lock, and then use this to also simplify the
reference counting in cfids_laundromat_worker() and
invalidate_all_cached_dirs().

Fixes this KASAN splat (which manually injects an error and lease break
in open_cached_dir()):

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smb2_cached_lease_break+0x27/0xb0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811cc24c10 by task kworker/3:1/65

CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 65 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-g255cf264e6e5-dirty #87
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Workqueue: cifsiod smb2_cached_lease_break
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x77/0xb0
print_report+0xce/0x660
kasan_report+0xd3/0x110
smb2_cached_lease_break+0x27/0xb0
process_one_work+0x50a/0xc50
worker_thread+0x2ba/0x530
kthread+0x17c/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Allocated by task 2464:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
open_cached_dir+0xa7d/0x1fb0
smb2_query_path_info+0x43c/0x6e0
cifs_get_fattr+0x346/0xf10
cifs_get_inode_info+0x157/0x210
cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x460
cifs_getattr+0x173/0x470
vfs_statx_path+0x10f/0x160
vfs_statx+0xe9/0x150
vfs_fstatat+0x5e/0xc0
__do_sys_newfstatat+0x91/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x95/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Freed by task 2464:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x51/0x70
kfree+0x174/0x520
open_cached_dir+0x97f/0x1fb0
smb2_query_path_info+0x43c/0x6e0
cifs_get_fattr+0x346/0xf10
cifs_get_inode_info+0x157/0x210
cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x460
cifs_getattr+0x173/0x470
vfs_statx_path+0x10f/0x160
vfs_statx+0xe9/0x150
vfs_fstatat+0x5e/0xc0
__do_sys_newfstatat+0x91/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x95/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xad/0xc0
insert_work+0x32/0x100
__queue_work+0x5c9/0x870
queue_work_on+0x82/0x90
open_cached_dir+0x1369/0x1fb0
smb2_query_path_info+0x43c/0x6e0
cifs_get_fattr+0x346/0xf10
cifs_get_inode_info+0x157/0x210
cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x460
cifs_getattr+0x173/0x470
vfs_statx_path+0x10f/0x160
vfs_statx+0xe9/0x150
vfs_fstatat+0x5e/0xc0
__do_sys_newfstatat+0x91/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x95/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88811cc24c00
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [ffff88811cc24c00, ffff88811cc25000)

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Feb 11, 2025

Severity

High

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
High
Integrity
High
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:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(8th percentile)

Weaknesses

Use After Free

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-53177

GHSA ID

GHSA-5hh7-6vv2-v2hg

Source code

No known source code

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