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High severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 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:

btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free in do_zone_finish()

Shinichiro reported the following use-after-free triggered by the device
replace operation in fstests btrfs/070.

BTRFS info (device nullb1): scrub: finished on devid 1 with status: 0

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881543c8060 by task btrfs-cleaner/3494007

CPU: 0 PID: 3494007 Comm: btrfs-cleaner Tainted: G W 6.8.0-rc5-kts #1
Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPi-TF, BIOS 3.3 02/21/2020
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90
print_report+0xcf/0x670
? __virt_addr_valid+0x200/0x3e0
kasan_report+0xd8/0x110
? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs]
? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs]
do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs]
btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x5e1/0x1750 [btrfs]
? __pfx_btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]
? btrfs_put_root+0x2d/0x220 [btrfs]
? btrfs_clean_one_deleted_snapshot+0x299/0x430 [btrfs]
cleaner_kthread+0x21e/0x380 [btrfs]
? __pfx_cleaner_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]
kthread+0x2e3/0x3c0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

Allocated by task 3493983:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
btrfs_alloc_device+0xb3/0x4e0 [btrfs]
device_list_add.constprop.0+0x993/0x1630 [btrfs]
btrfs_scan_one_device+0x219/0x3d0 [btrfs]
btrfs_control_ioctl+0x26e/0x310 [btrfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Freed by task 3494056:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60
poison_slab_object+0x102/0x170
__kasan_slab_free+0x32/0x70
kfree+0x11b/0x320
btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev+0xca/0x280 [btrfs]
btrfs_dev_replace_finishing+0xd7e/0x14f0 [btrfs]
btrfs_dev_replace_by_ioctl+0x1286/0x25a0 [btrfs]
btrfs_ioctl+0xb27/0x57d0 [btrfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881543c8000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [ffff8881543c8000, ffff8881543c8400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000fe2c1285 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1543c8
head:00000000fe2c1285 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x17ffffc0000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 0017ffffc0000840 ffff888100042dc0 ffffea0019e8f200 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8881543c7f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff8881543c7f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

ffff8881543c8000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8881543c8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8881543c8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

This UAF happens because we're accessing stale zone information of a
already removed btrfs_device in do_zone_finish().

The sequence of events is as follows:

btrfs_dev_replace_start
btrfs_scrub_dev
btrfs_dev_replace_finishing
btrfs_dev_replace_update_device_in_mapping_tree <-- devices replaced
btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev
btrfs_free_device <-- device freed

cleaner_kthread
btrfs_delete_unused_bgs
btrfs_zone_finish
do_zone_finish <-- refers the freed device

The reason for this is that we're using a
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 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-2024-26944

GHSA ID

GHSA-phc9-mf56-r5f6

Source code

No known source code

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