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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-48892

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/21/2024 3:15:05 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

sched/core: Fix use-after-free bug in dup_user_cpus_ptr()

Since commit 07ec77a1d4e8 ("sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be
restricted on asymmetric systems"), the setting and clearing of
user_cpus_ptr are done under pi_lock for arm64 architecture. However,
dup_user_cpus_ptr() accesses user_cpus_ptr without any lock
protection. Since sched_setaffinity() can be invoked from another
process, the process being modified may be undergoing fork() at
the same time.  When racing with the clearing of user_cpus_ptr in
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked(), it can lead to user-after-free and
possibly double-free in arm64 kernel.

Commit 8f9ea86fdf99 ("sched: Always preserve the user requested
cpumask") fixes this problem as user_cpus_ptr, once set, will never
be cleared in a task's lifetime. However, this bug was re-introduced
in commit 851a723e45d1 ("sched: Always clear user_cpus_ptr in
do_set_cpus_allowed()") which allows the clearing of user_cpus_ptr in
do_set_cpus_allowed(). This time, it will affect all arches.

Fix this bug by always clearing the user_cpus_ptr of the newly
cloned/forked task before the copying process starts and check the
user_cpus_ptr state of the source task under pi_lock.

Note to stable, this patch won't be applicable to stable releases.
Just copy the new dup_user_cpus_ptr() function over.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b5cc7fd1789ea5dbb942c9f8207b076d365badc [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87ca4f9efbd7cc649ff43b87970888f2812945b8 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b22faa21b6230d5eccd233e1b7e0026a5002b287 [No types assigned]