CVE-2024-46845: tracing/timerlat: Only clear timer if a kthread exists
First published: Fri Sep 27 2024(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/timerlat: Only clear timer if a kthread exists The timerlat tracer can use user space threads to check for osnoise and timer latency. If the program using this is killed via a SIGTERM, the threads are shutdown one at a time and another tracing instance can start up resetting the threads before they are fully closed. That causes the hrtimer assigned to the kthread to be shutdown and freed twice when the dying thread finally closes the file descriptors, causing a use-after-free bug. Only cancel the hrtimer if the associated thread is still around. Also add the interface_lock around the resetting of the tlat_var->kthread. Note, this is just a quick fix that can be backported to stable. A real fix is to have a better synchronization between the shutdown of old threads and the starting of new ones.
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.5<6.6.51 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.7<6.10.10 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc1 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc2 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc3 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc4 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc5 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc6 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a9d0d405159e9c796ddf771f7cff691c1a2bc1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c72f0b2c45f21cb8b00fc37f79f632d7e46c2ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6a53481da292d970d1edf0d8831121d1c5e2f0d
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-46845
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46845
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-46845
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-46845
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46845
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/e6a53481da292d970d1edf0d8831121d1c5e2f0d
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