Linux Kernel up to 6.9.10 pseries mm/usercopy.c information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.9.10. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file mm/usercopy.c of the component pseries. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-41065. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.9.10. This issue affects an unknown function of the file mm/usercopy.c of the component pseries. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-* results in a BUG() when the config CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled as shown below. kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc scsi_transport_fc ibmveth pseries_wdt dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse CPU: 27 PID: 1815 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #85 Hardware name: IBM,9040-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_042) hv:phyp pSeries NIP: c0000000005d23d4 LR: c0000000005d23d0 CTR: 00000000006ee6f8 REGS: c000000120c078c0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.10.0-rc3) MSR: 8000000000029033 CR: 2828220f XER: 0000000e CFAR: c0000000001fdc80 IRQMASK: 0 [ ... GPRs omitted ... ] NIP [c0000000005d23d4] usercopy_abort+0x78/0xb0 LR [c0000000005d23d0] usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 Call Trace: usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 (unreliable) __check_heap_object+0xf8/0x120 check_heap_object+0x218/0x240 __check_object_size+0x84/0x1a4 dtl_file_read+0x17c/0x2c4 full_proxy_read+0x8c/0x110 vfs_read+0xdc/0x3a0 ksys_read+0x84/0x144 system_call_exception+0x124/0x330 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fff81f3ab34 Commit 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0") requires that only whitelisted areas in slab/slub objects can be copied to userspace when usercopy hardening is enabled using CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. Dtl contains hypervisor dispatch events which are expected to be read by privileged users. Hence mark this safe for user access. Specify useroffset=0 and usersize=DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES to whitelist the entire object.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-41065 since 07/12/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207773 (Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-7000)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.4.281, 5.10.223, 5.15.164, 6.1.101, 6.6.42 or 6.9.11 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a7b952941ce0/6b16098148ea/e59822f9d700/1ee68686d1e2/e512a59b4726/0f5892212c27/1a14150e1656 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (207773) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-1722). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• IBM InfoSphere Guardium
• Oracle Linux
• NetApp FAS
• NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
• Siemens SIMATIC S7
• Oracle VM
• IBM Security Guardium
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Broadcom Brocade SANnav
• Dell PowerScale
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• Dell integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
• Dell Avamar
• IBM Storage Scale
• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
• Juniper Junos Space
• IBM Storage Scale System
• SolarWinds Security Event Manager
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Management Center
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain OS

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.4.280
• 5.10.222
• 5.15.163
• 6.0
• 6.1.100
• 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
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.9.0
• 6.9.1
• 6.9.2
• 6.9.3
• 6.9.4
• 6.9.5
• 6.9.6
• 6.9.7
• 6.9.8
• 6.9.9
• 6.9.10

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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