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CVE-2024-41001

io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak

Severity Score

5.1
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Track
*SSVC
Descriptions

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

io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak

kmemleak complains that there's a memory leak related to connect
handling:

unreferenced object 0xffff0001093bdf00 (size 128):
comm "iou-sqp-455", pid 457, jiffies 4294894164
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
02 00 fa ea 7f 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 2e481b1a):
[<00000000c0a26af4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x38
[<000000009c30bb45>] kmalloc_trace+0x228/0x358
[<000000009da9d39f>] __audit_sockaddr+0xd0/0x138
[<0000000089a93e34>] move_addr_to_kernel+0x1a0/0x1f8
[<000000000b4e80e6>] io_connect_prep+0x1ec/0x2d4
[<00000000abfbcd99>] io_submit_sqes+0x588/0x1e48
[<00000000e7c25e07>] io_sq_thread+0x8a4/0x10e4
[<00000000d999b491>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

which can can happen if:

1) The command type does something on the prep side that triggers an
audit call.
2) The thread hasn't done any operations before this that triggered
an audit call inside ->issue(), where we have audit_uring_entry()
and audit_uring_exit().

Work around this by issuing a blanket NOP operation before the SQPOLL
does anything.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Track
Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Tech. Impact
Partial
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2024-07-12 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-07-12 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-22 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-11-05 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-402: Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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< 6.1.96
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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< 6.6.36
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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< 6.9.7
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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< 6.10
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