CVE-2017-16527 (published 2017-11-04T01:29Z)

sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (snd_usb_mixer_interrupt use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 6.6, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:P/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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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: Takashi Iwai
author_date: 2017-10-10 14:10:32+02:00
msg: ALSA: usb-audio: Kill stray URB at exiting

USB-audio driver may leave a stray URB for the mixer interrupt when it
exits by some error during probe.  This leads to a use-after-free
error as spotted by syzkaller like:
  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_interrupt+0x604/0x6f0
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16
   dump_stack+0x292/0x395 lib/dump_stack.c:52
   print_address_description+0x78/0x280 mm/kasan/report.c:252
   kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351
   kasan_report+0x23d/0x350 mm/kasan/report.c:409
   __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:430
   snd_usb_mixer_interrupt+0x604/0x6f0 sound/usb/mixer.c:2490
   __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x2e0/0x650 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1779
   ....

  Allocated by task 1484:
   save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
   save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
   set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459
   kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:551
   kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x11e/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2772
   kmalloc ./include/linux/slab.h:493
   kzalloc ./include/linux/slab.h:666
   snd_usb_create_mixer+0x145/0x1010 sound/usb/mixer.c:2540
   create_standard_mixer_quirk+0x58/0x80 sound/usb/quirks.c:516
   snd_usb_create_quirk+0x92/0x100 sound/usb/quirks.c:560
   create_composite_quirk+0x1c4/0x3e0 sound/usb/quirks.c:59
   snd_usb_create_quirk+0x92/0x100 sound/usb/quirks.c:560
   usb_audio_probe+0x1040/0x2c10 sound/usb/card.c:618
   ....

  Freed by task 1484:
   save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
   save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
   set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459
   kasan_slab_free+0x72/0xc0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:524
   slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1390
   slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1412
   slab_free mm/slub.c:2988
   kfree+0xf6/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3919
   snd_usb_mixer_free+0x11a/0x160 sound/usb/mixer.c:2244
   snd_usb_mixer_dev_free+0x36/0x50 sound/usb/mixer.c:2250
   __snd_device_free+0x1ff/0x380 sound/core/device.c:91
   snd_device_free_all+0x8f/0xe0 sound/core/device.c:244
   snd_card_do_free sound/core/init.c:461
   release_card_device+0x47/0x170 sound/core/init.c:181
   device_release+0x13f/0x210 drivers/base/core.c:814
   ....

Actually such a URB is killed properly at disconnection when the
device gets probed successfully, and what we need is to apply it for
the error-path, too.

In this patch, we apply snd_usb_mixer_disconnect() at releasing.
Also introduce a new flag, disconnected, to struct usb_mixer_interface
for not performing the disconnection procedure twice.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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: mixer.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2234,6 +2234,9 @@ static int parse_audio_unit(struct mixer_build *state, int unitid)
 
 static void snd_usb_mixer_free(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
 {
+	/* kill pending URBs */
+	snd_usb_mixer_disconnect(mixer);
+
 	kfree(mixer->id_elems);
 	if (mixer->urb) {
 		kfree(mixer->urb->transfer_buffer);
@@ -2584,8 +2587,13 @@ int snd_usb_create_mixer(struct snd_usb_audio *chip, int ctrlif,
 
 void snd_usb_mixer_disconnect(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
 {
-	usb_kill_urb(mixer->urb);
-	usb_kill_urb(mixer->rc_urb);
+	if (mixer->disconnected)
+		return;
+	if (mixer->urb)
+		usb_kill_urb(mixer->urb);
+	if (mixer->rc_urb)
+		usb_kill_urb(mixer->rc_urb);
+	mixer->disconnected = true;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM

programming_language: C
filename: mixer.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ struct usb_mixer_interface {
 	struct urb *rc_urb;
 	struct usb_ctrlrequest *rc_setup_packet;
 	u8 rc_buffer[6];
+
+	bool disconnected;
 };
 
 #define MAX_CHANNELS	16	/* max logical channels */

programming_language: C