CVE-2023-53557High· 7.8▾ TwilightIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault: general protection fault, probably fo…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 42.9 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Last analysed / modified upstream
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7.8 → 5.5
high → medium
0.2% → 0.2%
5.5 → 7.8
medium → high
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered
While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
fprobe_handler+0xc1/0x270
? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10
? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10
? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10
? bpf_testmod_init+0x22/0x80
? do_one_initcall+0x63/0x2e0
? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40
? kmalloc_trace+0xaf/0xc0
? do_init_module+0x60/0x250
? __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120
? do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
</TASK>
In unregister_fprobe function we can't release fp->rethook while it's possible there are some of its users still running on another cpu.
Moving rethook_free call after fp->ops is unregistered with unregister_ftrace_function call.
linux_kernel >= 5.18, < 6.1.40linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.4.5linux_kernel = 6.5Upgrade past the affected range:
linux_kernel 6.4.5Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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