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Exploitability
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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-26933

Disclosure Date: May 01, 2024 •
CVE-2024-26933 CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8
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Description

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

USB: core: Fix deadlock in port “disable” sysfs attribute

The show and store callback routines for the “disable” sysfs attribute
file in port.c acquire the device lock for the port’s parent hub
device. This can cause problems if another process has locked the hub
to remove it or change its configuration:

Removing the hub or changing its configuration requires the
hub interface to be removed, which requires the port device
to be removed, and device_del() waits until all outstanding
sysfs attribute callbacks for the ports have returned.  The
lock can't be released until then.

But the disable_show() or disable_store() routine can't return
until after it has acquired the lock.

The resulting deadlock can be avoided by calling
sysfs_break_active_protection(). This will cause the sysfs core not
to wait for the attribute’s callback routine to return, allowing the
removal to proceed. The disadvantage is that after making this call,
there is no guarantee that the hub structure won’t be deallocated at
any moment. To prevent this, we have to acquire a reference to it
first by calling hub_get().

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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 9dac54f08198
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 6.9
Technical Analysis