CVE: CVE-2023-52975
Published: 2025-03-27
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix UAF during logout when accessing the shost ipaddress

Bug report and analysis from Ding Hui.

During iSCSI session logout, if another task accesses the shost ipaddress
attr, we can get a KASAN UAF report like this:

[  276.942144] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0
[  276.942535] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881053b45b8 by task cat/4088
[  276.943511] CPU: 2 PID: 4088 Comm: cat Tainted: G            E      6.1.0-rc8+ #3
[  276.943997] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[  276.944470] Call Trace:
[  276.944943]  <TASK>
[  276.945397]  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
[  276.945887]  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x1e7
[  276.946421]  print_report+0x36/0x4f
[  276.947358]  kasan_report+0xad/0x130
[  276.948234]  kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1c0
[  276.948674]  _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0
[  276.949989]  iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param+0xad/0x2e0 [iscsi_tcp]
[  276.951765]  show_host_param_ISCSI_HOST_PARAM_IPADDRESS+0xe9/0x130 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.952185]  dev_attr_show+0x3f/0x80
[  276.953005]  sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1fb/0x3e0
[  276.953401]  seq_read_iter+0x402/0x1020
[  276.954260]  vfs_read+0x532/0x7b0
[  276.955113]  ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0
[  276.955952]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[  276.956347]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[  276.956769] RIP: 0033:0x7f5d3a679222
[  276.957161] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 32 c0 0b 00 e8 a5 fe 01 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24
[  276.958009] RSP: 002b:00007ffc864d16a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
[  276.958431] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 00007f5d3a679222
[  276.958857] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 00007f5d3a4fe000 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
[  276.959281] RBP: 00007f5d3a4fe000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: [PII_REDACTED]
[  276.959682] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
[  276.960126] R13: [PII_REDACTED] R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: 0000557a26dada58
[  276.960536]  </TASK>
[  276.961357] Allocated by task 2209:
[  276.961756]  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[  276.962170]  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[  276.962557]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x7e/0x90
[  276.962923]  __kmalloc+0x5b/0x140
[  276.963308]  iscsi_alloc_session+0x28/0x840 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.963712]  iscsi_session_setup+0xda/0xba0 [libiscsi]
[  276.964078]  iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create+0x1fd/0x330 [iscsi_tcp]
[  276.964431]  iscsi_if_create_session.isra.0+0x50/0x260 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.964793]  iscsi_if_recv_msg+0xc5a/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.965153]  iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.965546]  netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0
[  276.965905]  netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30
[  276.966236]  sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120
[  276.966576]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860
[  276.966923]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xe0/0x170
[  276.967300]  __sys_sendmsg+0xc8/0x170
[  276.967666]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[  276.968028]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[  276.968773] Freed by task 2209:
[  276.969111]  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[  276.969449]  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[  276.969789]  kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50
[  276.970146]  __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x190
[  276.970470]  __kmem_cache_free+0x133/0x270
[  276.970816]  device_release+0x98/0x210
[  276.971145]  kobject_cleanup+0x101/0x360
[  276.971462]  iscsi_session_teardown+0x3fb/0x530 [libiscsi]
[  276.971775]  iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy+0xd8/0x130 [iscsi_tcp]
[  276.972143]  iscsi_if_recv_msg+0x1bf1/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.972485]  iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[  276.972808]  netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0
[  276.973201]  netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30
[  276.973544]  sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120
[  276.973864]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860
[  276.974248]  ___sys_
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-416
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0af745fddefbd56198f4f35eb309215ee5f9e21e; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17b738590b97fb3fc287289971d1519ff9b875a1; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f1d64b13097e85abda0f91b5638000afc5f9a06