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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 25, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 3, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/9p: fix uninit-value in p9_client_rpc()

Syzbot with the help of KMSAN reported the following error:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in trace_9p_client_res include/trace/events/9p.h:146 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in p9_client_rpc+0x1314/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:754
trace_9p_client_res include/trace/events/9p.h:146 [inline]
p9_client_rpc+0x1314/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:754
p9_client_create+0x1551/0x1ff0 net/9p/client.c:1031
v9fs_session_init+0x1b9/0x28e0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:410
v9fs_mount+0xe2/0x12b0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:122
legacy_get_tree+0x114/0x290 fs/fs_context.c:662
vfs_get_tree+0xa7/0x570 fs/super.c:1797
do_new_mount+0x71f/0x15e0 fs/namespace.c:3352
path_mount+0x742/0x1f20 fs/namespace.c:3679
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3692 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x725/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875
__x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:3875
do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

Uninit was created at:
__alloc_pages+0x9d6/0xe70 mm/page_alloc.c:4598
__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]
alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2175 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2338 [inline]
new_slab+0x2de/0x1400 mm/slub.c:2391
___slab_alloc+0x1184/0x33d0 mm/slub.c:3525
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3610 [inline]
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3663 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3835 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc+0x6d3/0xbe0 mm/slub.c:3852
p9_tag_alloc net/9p/client.c:278 [inline]
p9_client_prepare_req+0x20a/0x1770 net/9p/client.c:641
p9_client_rpc+0x27e/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:688
p9_client_create+0x1551/0x1ff0 net/9p/client.c:1031
v9fs_session_init+0x1b9/0x28e0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:410
v9fs_mount+0xe2/0x12b0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:122
legacy_get_tree+0x114/0x290 fs/fs_context.c:662
vfs_get_tree+0xa7/0x570 fs/super.c:1797
do_new_mount+0x71f/0x15e0 fs/namespace.c:3352
path_mount+0x742/0x1f20 fs/namespace.c:3679
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3692 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x725/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875
__x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:3875
do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

If p9_check_errors() fails early in p9_client_rpc(), req->rc.tag
will not be properly initialized. However, trace_9p_client_res()
ends up trying to print it out anyway before p9_client_rpc()
finishes.

Fix this issue by assigning default values to p9_fcall fields
such as 'tag' and (just in case KMSAN unearths something new) 'id'
during the tag allocation stage.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 25, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 25, 2024
Last updated Sep 3, 2024

Severity

Moderate

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
None
Integrity
None
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:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-39301

GHSA ID

GHSA-9fgp-7m5x-pf3v

Source code

No known source code

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