Linux Kernel up to 5.15.167/6.1.112/6.6.56/6.11.3 thermal drivers/pci/pci.c pcim_device_enable information disclosure

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.167/6.1.112/6.6.56/6.11.3. This issue affects the function pcim_device_enable of the file drivers/pci/pci.c of the component thermal. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-50093. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.167/6.1.112/6.6.56/6.11.3. Affected is the function pcim_device_enable of the file drivers/pci/pci.c of the component thermal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: intel: int340x: processor: Fix warning during module unload The processor_thermal driver uses pcim_device_enable() to enable a PCI device, which means the device will be automatically disabled on driver detach. Thus there is no need to call pci_disable_device() again on it. With recent PCI device resource management improvements, e.g. commit f748a07a0b64 ("PCI: Remove legacy pcim_release()"), this problem is exposed and triggers the warining below. [ 224.010735] proc_thermal_pci 0000:00:04.0: disabling already-disabled device [ 224.010747] WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 4442 at drivers/pci/pci.c:2250 pci_disable_device+0xe5/0x100 ... [ 224.010844] Call Trace: [ 224.010845] [ 224.010847] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80 [ 224.010851] ? __warn+0x8c/0x140 [ 224.010854] ? pci_disable_device+0xe5/0x100 [ 224.010856] ? report_bug+0x1c9/0x1e0 [ 224.010859] ? handle_bug+0x46/0x80 [ 224.010862] ? exc_invalid_op+0x1d/0x80 [ 224.010863] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30 [ 224.010867] ? pci_disable_device+0xe5/0x100 [ 224.010869] ? pci_disable_device+0xe5/0x100 [ 224.010871] ? kfree+0x21a/0x2b0 [ 224.010873] pcim_disable_device+0x20/0x30 [ 224.010875] devm_action_release+0x16/0x20 [ 224.010878] release_nodes+0x47/0xc0 [ 224.010880] devres_release_all+0x9f/0xe0 [ 224.010883] device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0x80 [ 224.010885] device_release_driver_internal+0x1ca/0x210 [ 224.010887] driver_detach+0x4e/0xa0 [ 224.010889] bus_remove_driver+0x6f/0xf0 [ 224.010890] driver_unregister+0x35/0x60 [ 224.010892] pci_unregister_driver+0x44/0x90 [ 224.010894] proc_thermal_pci_driver_exit+0x14/0x5f0 [processor_thermal_device_pci] ... [ 224.010921] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Remove the excess pci_disable_device() calls. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-50093 since 10/21/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211829 (CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-533.el9), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.15.168, 6.1.113, 6.6.57 or 6.11.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8403021b6f32/b4ab78f4adea/dd64ea033756/434525a86413/99ca0b57e49f 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 (211829), EUVD (EUVD-2024-44568) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3339). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source eCryptfs
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.167
• 6.1.112
• 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
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.6.51
• 6.6.52
• 6.6.53
• 6.6.54
• 6.6.55
• 6.6.56
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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