CVE-2023-1118 (published 2023-03-02T18:15Z)

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel integrated infrared receiver/transceiver driver was found in the way user detaching rc device. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-416
cwe_name: Use After Free
description: 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Duoming Zhou
author_date: 2023-01-24 08:55:33+01:00
msg: media: rc: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by ene_tx_irqsim()

When the ene device is detaching, function ene_remove() will
be called. But there is no function to cancel tx_sim_timer
in ene_remove(), the timer handler ene_tx_irqsim() could race
with ene_remove(). As a result, the UAF bugs could happen,
the process is shown below.

    (cleanup routine)          |        (timer routine)
                               | mod_timer(&dev->tx_sim_timer, ..)
ene_remove()                   | (wait a time)
                               | ene_tx_irqsim()
                               |   dev->hw_lock //USE
                               |   ene_tx_sample(dev) //USE

Fix by adding del_timer_sync(&dev->tx_sim_timer) in ene_remove(),
The tx_sim_timer could stop before ene device is deallocated.

What's more, The rc_unregister_device() and del_timer_sync()
should be called first in ene_remove() and the deallocated
functions such as free_irq(), release_region() and so on
should be called behind them. Because the rc_unregister_device()
is well synchronized. Otherwise, race conditions may happen. The
situations that may lead to race conditions are shown below.

Firstly, the rx receiver is disabled with ene_rx_disable()
before rc_unregister_device() in ene_remove(), which means it
can be enabled again if a process opens /dev/lirc0 between
ene_rx_disable() and rc_unregister_device().

Secondly, the irqaction descriptor is freed by free_irq()
before the rc device is unregistered, which means irqaction
descriptor may be accessed again after it is deallocated.

Thirdly, the timer can call ene_tx_sample() that can write
to the io ports, which means the io ports could be accessed
again after they are deallocated by release_region().

Therefore, the rc_unregister_device() and del_timer_sync()
should be called first in ene_remove().

Suggested by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>

Fixes: 9ea53b74df9c ("V4L/DVB: STAGING: remove lirc_ene0100 driver")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: ene_ir.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1106,6 +1106,8 @@ static void ene_remove(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev)
 	struct ene_device *dev = pnp_get_drvdata(pnp_dev);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	rc_unregister_device(dev->rdev);
+	del_timer_sync(&dev->tx_sim_timer);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->hw_lock, flags);
 	ene_rx_disable(dev);
 	ene_rx_restore_hw_buffer(dev);
@@ -1113,7 +1115,6 @@ static void ene_remove(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev)
 
 	free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
 	release_region(dev->hw_io, ENE_IO_SIZE);
-	rc_unregister_device(dev->rdev);
 	kfree(dev);
 }
 

programming_language: C