Vulnerability CVE-2021-47097

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47097

Published: 2024-03-04

Description:

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

Input: elantech - fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id()

The array param[] in elantech_change_report_id() must be at least 3
bytes, because elantech_read_reg_params() is calling ps2_command() with
PSMOUSE_CMD_GETINFO, that is going to access 3 bytes from param[], but
it's defined in the stack as an array of 2 bytes, therefore we have a
potential stack out-of-bounds access here, also confirmed by KASAN:

[ 6.512374] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512397] Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881024d77c2 by task kworker/2:1/118

[ 6.512416] CPU: 2 PID: 118 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 5.13.0-22-generic #22+arighi20211110
[ 6.512428] Hardware name: LENOVO 20T8000QGE/20T8000QGE, BIOS R1AET32W (1.08 ) 08/14/2020
[ 6.512436] Workqueue: events_long serio_handle_event
[ 6.512453] Call Trace:
[ 6.512462] show_stack+0x52/0x58
[ 6.512474] dump_stack+0xa1/0xd3
[ 6.512487] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1d/0x140
[ 6.512502] ? __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512516] __kasan_report.cold+0x7d/0x112
[ 6.512527] ? _raw_write_lock_irq+0x20/0xd0
[ 6.512539] ? __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512552] kasan_report+0x3c/0x50
[ 6.512564] __asan_load1+0x6a/0x70
[ 6.512575] __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512589] ? ps2_drain+0x240/0x240
[ 6.512601] ? dev_printk_emit+0xa2/0xd3
[ 6.512612] ? dev_vprintk_emit+0xc5/0xc5
[ 6.512621] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20
[ 6.512634] ? mutex_lock+0x8f/0xe0
[ 6.512643] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x20/0x20
[ 6.512655] ps2_command+0x52/0x90
[ 6.512670] elantech_ps2_command+0x4f/0xc0 [psmouse]
[ 6.512734] elantech_change_report_id+0x1e6/0x256 [psmouse]
[ 6.512799] ? elantech_report_trackpoint.constprop.0.cold+0xd/0xd [psmouse]
[ 6.512863] ? ps2_command+0x7f/0x90
[ 6.512877] elantech_query_info.cold+0x6bd/0x9ed [psmouse]
[ 6.512943] ? elantech_setup_ps2+0x460/0x460 [psmouse]
[ 6.513005] ? psmouse_reset+0x69/0xb0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513064] ? psmouse_attr_set_helper+0x2a0/0x2a0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513122] ? phys_pmd_init+0x30e/0x521
[ 6.513137] elantech_init+0x8a/0x200 [psmouse]
[ 6.513200] ? elantech_init_ps2+0xf0/0xf0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513249] ? elantech_query_info+0x440/0x440 [psmouse]
[ 6.513296] ? synaptics_send_cmd+0x60/0x60 [psmouse]
[ 6.513342] ? elantech_query_info+0x440/0x440 [psmouse]
[ 6.513388] ? psmouse_try_protocol+0x11e/0x170 [psmouse]
[ 6.513432] psmouse_extensions+0x65d/0x6e0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513476] ? psmouse_try_protocol+0x170/0x170 [psmouse]
[ 6.513519] ? mutex_unlock+0x22/0x40
[ 6.513526] ? ps2_command+0x7f/0x90
[ 6.513536] ? psmouse_probe+0xa3/0xf0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513580] psmouse_switch_protocol+0x27d/0x2e0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513624] psmouse_connect+0x272/0x530 [psmouse]
[ 6.513669] serio_driver_probe+0x55/0x70
[ 6.513679] really_probe+0x190/0x720
[ 6.513689] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x1f0
[ 6.513697] device_driver_attach+0x119/0x130
[ 6.513705] ? device_driver_attach+0x130/0x130
[ 6.513713] __driver_attach+0xe7/0x1a0
[ 6.513720] ? device_driver_attach+0x130/0x130
[ 6.513728] bus_for_each_dev+0xfb/0x150
[ 6.513738] ? subsys_dev_iter_exit+0x10/0x10
[ 6.513748] ? _raw_write_unlock_bh+0x30/0x30
[ 6.513757] driver_attach+0x2d/0x40
[ 6.513764] serio_handle_event+0x199/0x3d0
[ 6.513775] process_one_work+0x471/0x740
[ 6.513785] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x790
[ 6.513794] ? process_one_work+0x740/0x740
[ 6.513802] kthread+0x1b4/0x1e0
[ 6.513809] ? set_kthread_struct+0x80/0x80
[ 6.513816] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

[ 6.513832] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[ 6.513838] page:00000000bc35e189 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1024d7
[ 6.513847] flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 6.513860] raw: 0
---truncated---

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7f95328c6f0afffdc4555f16e3bbab8bbf0d9be

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676c572439e58b7ee6b7ca3f1e5595382921045c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfd5b60b5342b6b505a104e48f08ad9b9bdbbd7b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d72d9f960ccf1052a0630a68c3d358791dbdaaa

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