CVE-2023-1195 (C, published 2023-05-18T22:15Z)
Description: value: A use-after-free flaw was found in reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs when it forgets to set the free pointer server->hostname to NULL, leading to an invalid pointer request.
Severity: nan (CVSS v3 base score: 5.5)
Weakness: CWE-416 \u2014 Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Files changed:
fs/cifs/connect.c
Commit message: cifs: fix use-after-free caused by invalid pointer `hostname`

`hostname` needs to be set as null-pointer after free in
`cifs_put_tcp_session` function, or when `cifsd` thread attempts
to resolve hostname and reconnect the host, the thread would deref
the invalid pointer.

Here is one of practical backtrace examples as reference:

Task 477
---------------------------
 do_mount
  path_mount
   do_new_mount
    vfs_get_tree
     smb3_get_tree
      smb3_get_tree_common
       cifs_smb3_do_mount
        cifs_mount
         mount_put_conns
          cifs_put_tcp_session
          --> kfree(server->hostname)

cifsd
---------------------------
 kthread
  cifs_demultiplex_thread
   cifs_reconnect
    reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname
    --> if (!server->hostname)
    --> if (server->hostname[0] == '\0')  // !! UAF fault here

CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112
mount error(112): Host is down
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname+0x2ba/0x310
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888108f35380 by task cifsd/480
CPU: 2 PID: 480 Comm: cifsd Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00106-gf705792f89dd-dirty #25
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x85
 print_report+0x16c/0x4a3
 kasan_report+0x95/0x190
 reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname+0x2ba/0x310
 __cifs_reconnect.part.0+0x241/0x800
 cifs_reconnect+0x65f/0xb60
 cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1570/0x2570
 kthread+0x2c5/0x380
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
 </TASK>
Allocated by task 477:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7e/0x90
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x52/0x1b0
 kstrdup+0x3b/0x70
 cifs_get_tcp_session+0xbc/0x19b0
 mount_get_conns+0xa9/0x10c0
 cifs_mount+0xdf/0x1970
 cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x295/0x1660
 smb3_get_tree+0x352/0x5e0
 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x2e0
 path_mount+0xf8c/0x1990
 do_mount+0xee/0x110
 __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Freed by task 477:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50
 __kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x190
 __kmem_cache_free+0xca/0x3f0
 cifs_put_tcp_session+0x30c/0x450
 cifs_mount+0xf95/0x1970
 cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x295/0x1660
 smb3_get_tree+0x352/0x5e0
 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x2e0
 path_mount+0xf8c/0x1990
 do_mount+0xee/0x110
 __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888108f35380
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-16 of size 16
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 16-byte region [ffff888108f35380, ffff888108f35390)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000333f8e58 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888108f350e0 pfn:0x108f35
flags: 0x200000000000200(slab|node=0|zone=2)
raw: 0200000000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff8881000423c0
raw: ffff888108f350e0 000000008080007a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888108f35280: fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc
 ffff888108f35300: fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc
>ffff888108f35380: fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc
                   ^
 ffff888108f35400: fa fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888108f35480: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

Fixes: 7be3248f3139 ("cifs: To match file servers, make sure the server hostname matches")
Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>


Vulnerable code:

Fixed code:
	server->hostname = NULL;