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CVE-2021-46984

Disclosure Date: February 28, 2024 •
CVE-2021-46984 CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8
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Description

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

kyber: fix out of bounds access when preempted

__blk_mq_sched_bio_merge() gets the ctx and hctx for the current CPU and
passes the hctx to –>bio_merge(). kyber_bio_merge() then gets the ctx
for the current CPU again and uses that to get the corresponding Kyber
context in the passed hctx. However, the thread may be preempted between
the two calls to blk_mq_get_ctx(), and the ctx returned the second time
may no longer correspond to the passed hctx. This “works” accidentally
most of the time, but it can cause us to read garbage if the second ctx
came from an hctx with more ctx’s than the first one (i.e., if
ctx->index_hw[hctx->type] > hctx->nr_ctx).

This manifested as this UBSAN array index out of bounds error reported
by Jakub:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:130:9
index 13106 is out of range for type ‘long unsigned int [128]’
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xa4/0xe5
ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold.13+0x2a/0x34
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x476/0x480
do_raw_spin_lock+0x1c2/0x1d0
kyber_bio_merge+0x112/0x180
blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1f5/0x1100
submit_bio_noacct+0x7b0/0x870
submit_bio+0xc2/0x3a0
btrfs_map_bio+0x4f0/0x9d0
btrfs_submit_data_bio+0x24e/0x310
submit_one_bio+0x7f/0xb0
submit_extent_page+0xc4/0x440
__extent_writepage_io+0x2b8/0x5e0
__extent_writepage+0x28d/0x6e0
extent_write_cache_pages+0x4d7/0x7a0
extent_writepages+0xa2/0x110
do_writepages+0x8f/0x180
__writeback_single_inode+0x99/0x7f0
writeback_sb_inodes+0x34e/0x790
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x9e/0x120
wb_writeback+0x4d2/0x660
wb_workfn+0x64d/0xa10
process_one_work+0x53a/0xa80
worker_thread+0x69/0x5b0
kthread+0x20b/0x240
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Only Kyber uses the hctx, so fix it by passing the request_queue to
–>bio_merge() instead. BFQ and mq-deadline just use that, and Kyber can
map the queues itself to avoid the mismatch.

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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

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 0b6b4b90b74c
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 5.13
Technical Analysis