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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-26932

Disclosure Date: May 01, 2024
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Description

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

usb: typec: tcpm: fix double-free issue in tcpm_port_unregister_pd()

When unregister pd capabilitie in tcpm, KASAN will capture below double
-free issue. The root cause is the same capabilitiy will be kfreed twice,
the first time is kfreed by pd_capabilities_release() and the second time
is explicitly kfreed by tcpm_port_unregister_pd().

[ 3.988059] BUG: KASAN: double-free in tcpm_port_unregister_pd+0x1a4/0x3dc
[ 3.995001] Free of addr ffff0008164d3000 by task kworker/u16:0/10
[ 4.001206]
[ 4.002712] CPU: 2 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc5-next-20240220-05616-g52728c567a55 #53
[ 4.012402] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QXP MEK (DT)
[ 4.017569] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
[ 4.023456] Call trace:
[ 4.025920] dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec
[ 4.029629] show_stack+0x18/0x24
[ 4.032974] dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
[ 4.036675] print_report+0xfc/0x5c0
[ 4.040289] kasan_report_invalid_free+0xa0/0xc0
[ 4.044937] __kasan_slab_free+0x124/0x154
[ 4.049072] kfree+0xb4/0x1e8
[ 4.052069] tcpm_port_unregister_pd+0x1a4/0x3dc
[ 4.056725] tcpm_register_port+0x1dd0/0x2558
[ 4.061121] tcpci_register_port+0x420/0x71c
[ 4.065430] tcpci_probe+0x118/0x2e0

To fix the issue, this will remove kree() from tcpm_port_unregister_pd().

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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

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 6.9

Additional Info

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