CVE-2024-26944 btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free in do_zone_finish()
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's btrfs zoned mode allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
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- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-26944?
CVE-2024-26944 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free in do_zone_finish()
Shinichiro reported the following use-after-free triggered by the device replace operation in fstests btrfs/070.
BTRFS info (device nullb1): scrub: finished on devid 1 with status: 0 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881543c8060 by task btrfs-cleaner/3494007
CPU: 0 PID: 3494007 Comm: btrfs-cleaner Tainted: G W 6.8.0-rc5-kts #1 Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPi-TF, BIOS 3.3 02/21/2020 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90 print_report+0xcf/0x670 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x200/0x3e0 kasan_report+0xd8/0x110 ? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] ? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x5e1/0x1750 [btrfs] ? __pfx_btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x10/0x10 [btrfs] ? btrfs_put_root+0x2d/0x220 [btrfs] ? btrfs_clean_one_deleted_snapshot+0x299/0x430 [btrfs] cleaner_kthread+0x21e/0x380 [btrfs] ? __pfx_cleaner_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs] kthread+0x2e3/0x3c0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK>
Allocated by task 3493983: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 btrfs_alloc_device+0xb3/0x4e0 [btrfs] device_list_add.constprop.0+0x993/0x1630 [btrfs] btrfs_scan_one_device+0x219/0x3d0 [btrfs] btrfs_control_ioctl+0x26e/0x310 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
Freed by task 3494056: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60 poison_slab_object+0x102/0x170 __kasan_slab_free+0x32/0x70 kfree+0x11b/0x320 btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev+0xca/0x280 [btrfs] btrfs_dev_replace_finishing+0xd7e/0x14f0 [btrfs] btrfs_dev_replace_by_ioctl+0x1286/0x25a0 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl+0xb27/0x57d0 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881543c8000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 The buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of freed 1024-byte region [ffff8881543c8000, ffff8881543c8400)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:00000000fe2c1285 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1543c8 head:00000000fe2c1285 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x17ffffc0000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) page_type: 0xffffffff() raw: 0017ffffc0000840 ffff888100042dc0 ffffea0019e8f200 dead000000000002 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8881543c7f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff8881543c7f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffff8881543c8000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff8881543c8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8881543c8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
This UAF happens because we're accessing stale zone information of a already removed btrfs_device in do_zone_finish().
The sequence of events is as follows:
btrfs_dev_replace_start btrfs_scrub_dev btrfs_dev_replace_finishing btrfs_dev_replace_update_device_in_mapping_tree <-- devices replaced btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev btrfs_free_device <-- device freed
cleaner_kthread btrfs_delete_unused_bgs btrfs_zone_finish do_zone_finish <-- refers the freed device
The reason for this is that we're using a ---truncated---
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26944?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-26944?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2024-26944 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26944 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-55497, BELL-CVE-2024-26944, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26944, GHSA-phc9-mf56-r5f6, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-26944, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26944.