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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 29, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ata: libata-core: Fix double free on error

If e.g. the ata_port_alloc() call in ata_host_alloc() fails, we will jump
to the err_out label, which will call devres_release_group().
devres_release_group() will trigger a call to ata_host_release().
ata_host_release() calls kfree(host), so executing the kfree(host) in
ata_host_alloc() will lead to a double free:

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:553!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 11 PID: 599 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5 #47
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0
Code: 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 80 d6 ff ff 4d 89 f1 41 b8 01 00 00 00 48 89 d9 48 89 da
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000f377f0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff888112b1f2c0 RBX: ffff888112b1f2c0 RCX: ffff888112b1f320
RDX: 000000000000400b RSI: ffffffffc02c9de5 RDI: ffff888112b1f2c0
RBP: ffffc90000f37830 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000f37610 R11: 617461203a736b6e R12: ffffea00044ac780
R13: ffff888100046400 R14: ffffffffc02c9de5 R15: 0000000000000006
FS: 00007f2f1cabe980(0000) GS:ffff88813b380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2f1c3acf75 CR3: 0000000111724000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27
? die+0x2e/0x50
? do_trap+0xca/0x110
? do_error_trap+0x6a/0x90
? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0
? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70
? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata]
? ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata]
? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0
ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata]
ata_host_alloc_pinfo+0x14/0xa0 [libata]
ahci_init_one+0x6c9/0xd20 [ahci]

Ensure that we will not call kfree(host) twice, by performing the kfree()
only if the devres_open_group() call failed.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 29, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 29, 2024
Last updated Aug 8, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-41087

GHSA ID

GHSA-x35g-752c-r3xh

Source code

No known source code

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