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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 14, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

binder: fix freeze UAF in binder_release_work()

When a binder reference is cleaned up, any freeze work queued in the
associated process should also be removed. Otherwise, the reference is
freed while its ref->freeze.work is still queued in proc->work leading
to a use-after-free issue as shown by the following KASAN report:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_release_work+0x398/0x3d0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff31600ee91488 by task kworker/5:1/211

CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/5:1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7-00382-gfc6c92196396 #22
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Workqueue: events binder_deferred_func
Call trace:
binder_release_work+0x398/0x3d0
binder_deferred_func+0xb60/0x109c
process_one_work+0x51c/0xbd4
worker_thread+0x608/0xee8

Allocated by task 703:
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x130/0x280
binder_thread_write+0xdb4/0x42a0
binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x25ac
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x124/0x190
invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x254

Freed by task 211:
kfree+0xc4/0x230
binder_deferred_func+0xae8/0x109c
process_one_work+0x51c/0xbd4
worker_thread+0x608/0xee8

This commit fixes the issue by ensuring any queued freeze work is removed
when cleaning up a binder reference.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 14, 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

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56554

GHSA ID

GHSA-983j-f2fq-2775

Source code

No known source code

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