CVE-2024-42254

Technical Description

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

io_uring: fix error pbuf checking

Syz reports a problem, which boils down to NULL vs IS_ERR inconsistent

error handling in io_alloc_pbuf_ring().

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

RIP: 0010:__io_remove_buffers+0xac/0x700 io_uring/kbuf.c:341

Call Trace:

<TASK>

io_put_bl io_uring/kbuf.c:378 [inline]

io_destroy_buffers+0x14e/0x490 io_uring/kbuf.c:392

io_ring_ctx_free+0xa00/0x1070 io_uring/io_uring.c:2613

io_ring_exit_work+0x80f/0x8a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:2844

process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline]

process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312

worker_thread+0x86d/0xd40 kernel/workqueue.c:3390

kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389

ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References