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CVE-2024-56669

Disclosure Date: December 27, 2024
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Description

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

iommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS

The current implementation removes cache tags after disabling ATS,
leading to potential memory leaks and kernel crashes. Specifically,
CACHE_TAG_DEVTLB type cache tags may still remain in the list even
after the domain is freed, causing a use-after-free condition.

This issue really shows up when multiple VFs from different PFs
passed through to a single user-space process via vfio-pci. In such
cases, the kernel may crash with kernel messages like:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014
PGD 19036a067 P4D 1940a3067 PUD 136c9b067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 74 UID: 0 PID: 3183 Comm: testCli Not tainted 6.11.9 #2
RIP: 0010:cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x1f/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x163/0x590
? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x190
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250
? cache_tag_flush_range+0x5d/0x250
intel_iommu_tlb_sync+0x29/0x40
intel_iommu_unmap_pages+0xfe/0x160
__iommu_unmap+0xd8/0x1a0
vfio_unmap_unpin+0x182/0x340 [vfio_iommu_type1]
vfio_remove_dma+0x2a/0xb0 [vfio_iommu_type1]
vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl+0xafa/0x18e0 [vfio_iommu_type1]

Move cache_tag_unassign_domain() before iommu_disable_pci_caps() to fix
it.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

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