Linux Kernel up to 6.1.83/6.6.23/6.7.11/6.8.2 on IRQ request_irq null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.83/6.6.23/6.7.11/6.8.2 on IRQ. This impacts the function request_irq. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-26813. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.83/6.6.23/6.7.11/6.8.2 on IRQ. Affected is the function request_irq. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/platform: Create persistent IRQ handlers The vfio-platform SET_IRQS ioctl currently allows loopback triggering of an interrupt before a signaling eventfd has been configured by the user, which thereby allows a NULL pointer dereference. Rather than register the IRQ relative to a valid trigger, register all IRQs in a disabled state in the device open path. This allows mask operations on the IRQ to nest within the overall enable state governed by a valid eventfd signal. This decouples @masked, protected by the @locked spinlock from @trigger, protected via the @igate mutex. In doing so, it's guaranteed that changes to @trigger cannot race the IRQ handlers because the IRQ handler is synchronously disabled before modifying the trigger, and loopback triggering of the IRQ via ioctl is safe due to serialization with trigger changes via igate. For compatibility, request_irq() failures are maintained to be local to the SET_IRQS ioctl rather than a fatal error in the open device path. This allows, for example, a userspace driver with polling mode support to continue to work regardless of moving the request_irq() call site. This necessarily blocks all SET_IRQS access to the failed index.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-26813 since 02/19/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 6.1.84, 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3 or 6.9-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 7932db06c82c/62d4e43a569b/d6bedd6acc0b/0f8d8f9c2173/675daf435e9f is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
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• 6.1.78
• 6.1.79
• 6.1.80
• 6.1.81
• 6.1.82
• 6.1.83
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
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• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.7.0
• 6.7.1
• 6.7.2
• 6.7.3
• 6.7.4
• 6.7.5
• 6.7.6
• 6.7.7
• 6.7.8
• 6.7.9
• 6.7.10
• 6.7.11
• 6.8.0
• 6.8.1
• 6.8.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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