Vulnerability CVE-2023-52772
Published: 2024-05-21

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

af_unix: fix use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor()

syzbot reported the following crash [1]

After releasing unix socket lock, u->oob_skb can be changed
by another thread. We must temporarily increase skb refcount
to make sure this other thread will not free the skb under us.

[1]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor+0xa7/0xc0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2866
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88801f3b9cc4 by task syz-executor107/5297

CPU: 1 PID: 5297 Comm: syz-executor107 Not tainted 6.6.0-syzkaller-15910-gb8e3a87a627b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
print_report+0xc4/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:475
kasan_report+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:588
unix_stream_read_actor+0xa7/0xc0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2866
unix_stream_recv_urg net/unix/af_unix.c:2587 [inline]
unix_stream_read_generic+0x19a5/0x2480 net/unix/af_unix.c:2666
unix_stream_recvmsg+0x189/0x1b0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2903
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1044 [inline]
sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x170 net/socket.c:1066
____sys_recvmsg+0x21f/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2803
___sys_recvmsg+0x115/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2845
__sys_recvmsg+0x114/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2875
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
RIP: 0033:0x7fc67492c559
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fc6748ab228 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002f
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000001c RCX: 00007fc67492c559
RDX: 0000000040010083 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fc6749b6348 R08: 00007fc6748ab6c0 R09: 00007fc6748ab6c0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fc6749b6340
R13: 00007fc6749b634c R14: 00007ffe9fac52a0 R15: 00007ffe9fac5388
</TASK>

Allocated by task 5295:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x81/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:328
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:763 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x180/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:3523
__alloc_skb+0x287/0x330 net/core/skbuff.c:641
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
alloc_skb_with_frags+0xe4/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:6331
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x7e4/0x970 net/core/sock.c:2780
sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1884 [inline]
queue_oob net/unix/af_unix.c:2147 [inline]
unix_stream_sendmsg+0xb5f/0x10a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2301
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x180 net/socket.c:745
____sys_sendmsg+0x6ac/0x940 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2638
__sys_sendmsg+0x117/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2667
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

Freed by task 5295:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:236 [inline]
____kasan_slab_free+0x15b/0x1b0 mm/kasan/common.c:200
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1800 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x114/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:1826
slab_free mm/slub.c:3809 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0xf8/0x340 mm/slub.c:3831
kfree_skbmem+0xef/0x1b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1015
__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1073 [inline]
consume_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1288 [inline]
consume_skb+0xdf/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1282
queue_oob net/unix/af_unix.c:2178 [inline]
u
---truncated---

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75bcfc188abf4fae9c1d5f5dc0a03540be602eef
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d179189eec426fe4801e4b91efa1889faed12700
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae0b295ce16d8c8b4114c3037993191b4bb92f0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/069a3ec329ff43e7869a3d94c62cd03203016bce
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b7b492615cf3017190f55444f7016812b66611d
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