ghsa-cm7x-4mvp-c2jf
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-12-27 15:31
Modified
2025-01-06 18:31
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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: ? __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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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2024-56669",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-401",
         "CWE-416",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2024-12-27T15:15:26Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS\n\nThe current implementation removes cache tags after disabling ATS,\nleading to potential memory leaks and kernel crashes. Specifically,\nCACHE_TAG_DEVTLB type cache tags may still remain in the list even\nafter the domain is freed, causing a use-after-free condition.\n\nThis issue really shows up when multiple VFs from different PFs\npassed through to a single user-space process via vfio-pci. In such\ncases, the kernel may crash with kernel messages like:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014\n PGD 19036a067 P4D 1940a3067 PUD 136c9b067 PMD 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 74 UID: 0 PID: 3183 Comm: testCli Not tainted 6.11.9 #2\n RIP: 0010:cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  ? __die+0x1f/0x60\n  ? page_fault_oops+0x163/0x590\n  ? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x190\n  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n  ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250\n  ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x5d/0x250\n  intel_iommu_tlb_sync+0x29/0x40\n  intel_iommu_unmap_pages+0xfe/0x160\n  __iommu_unmap+0xd8/0x1a0\n  vfio_unmap_unpin+0x182/0x340 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n  vfio_remove_dma+0x2a/0xb0 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n  vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl+0xafa/0x18e0 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n\nMove cache_tag_unassign_domain() before iommu_disable_pci_caps() to fix\nit.",
   id: "GHSA-cm7x-4mvp-c2jf",
   modified: "2025-01-06T18:31:01Z",
   published: "2024-12-27T15:31:56Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56669",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f2557e08a617a4b5e92a48a1a9a6f86621def18",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a0a72d3ed919ebe6491f527630998be053151d8",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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