CVE-2014-9914 (published 2017-02-07T07:59Z)

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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-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: Eric Dumazet
author_date: 2014-06-10 06:43:01-07:00
msg: ipv4: fix a race in ip4_datagram_release_cb()

Alexey gave a AddressSanitizer[1] report that finally gave a good hint
at where was the origin of various problems already reported by Dormando
in the past [2]

Problem comes from the fact that UDP can have a lockless TX path, and
concurrent threads can manipulate sk_dst_cache, while another thread,
is holding socket lock and calls __sk_dst_set() in
ip4_datagram_release_cb() (this was added in linux-3.8)

It seems that all we need to do is to use sk_dst_check() and
sk_dst_set() so that all the writers hold same spinlock
(sk->sk_dst_lock) to prevent corruptions.

TCP stack do not need this protection, as all sk_dst_cache writers hold
the socket lock.

[1]
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel

AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free in ipv4_dst_check
Read of size 2 by thread T15453:
 [<ffffffff817daa3a>] ipv4_dst_check+0x1a/0x90 ./net/ipv4/route.c:1116
 [<ffffffff8175b789>] __sk_dst_check+0x89/0xe0 ./net/core/sock.c:531
 [<ffffffff81830a36>] ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x46/0x390 ??:0
 [<ffffffff8175eaea>] release_sock+0x17a/0x230 ./net/core/sock.c:2413
 [<ffffffff81830882>] ip4_datagram_connect+0x462/0x5d0 ??:0
 [<ffffffff81846d06>] inet_dgram_connect+0x76/0xd0 ./net/ipv4/af_inet.c:534
 [<ffffffff817580ac>] SYSC_connect+0x15c/0x1c0 ./net/socket.c:1701
 [<ffffffff817596ce>] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10 ./net/socket.c:1682
 [<ffffffff818b0a29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
./arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:629

Freed by thread T15455:
 [<ffffffff8178d9b8>] dst_destroy+0xa8/0x160 ./net/core/dst.c:251
 [<ffffffff8178de25>] dst_release+0x45/0x80 ./net/core/dst.c:280
 [<ffffffff818304c1>] ip4_datagram_connect+0xa1/0x5d0 ??:0
 [<ffffffff81846d06>] inet_dgram_connect+0x76/0xd0 ./net/ipv4/af_inet.c:534
 [<ffffffff817580ac>] SYSC_connect+0x15c/0x1c0 ./net/socket.c:1701
 [<ffffffff817596ce>] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10 ./net/socket.c:1682
 [<ffffffff818b0a29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
./arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:629

Allocated by thread T15453:
 [<ffffffff8178d291>] dst_alloc+0x81/0x2b0 ./net/core/dst.c:171
 [<ffffffff817db3b7>] rt_dst_alloc+0x47/0x50 ./net/ipv4/route.c:1406
 [<     inlined    >] __ip_route_output_key+0x3e8/0xf70
__mkroute_output ./net/ipv4/route.c:1939
 [<ffffffff817dde08>] __ip_route_output_key+0x3e8/0xf70 ./net/ipv4/route.c:2161
 [<ffffffff817deb34>] ip_route_output_flow+0x14/0x30 ./net/ipv4/route.c:2249
 [<ffffffff81830737>] ip4_datagram_connect+0x317/0x5d0 ??:0
 [<ffffffff81846d06>] inet_dgram_connect+0x76/0xd0 ./net/ipv4/af_inet.c:534
 [<ffffffff817580ac>] SYSC_connect+0x15c/0x1c0 ./net/socket.c:1701
 [<ffffffff817596ce>] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10 ./net/socket.c:1682
 [<ffffffff818b0a29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
./arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:629

[2]
<4>[196727.311203] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
<4>[196727.311224] Modules linked in: xt_TEE xt_dscp xt_DSCP macvlan bridge coretemp crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel gpio_ich microcode ipmi_watchdog ipmi_devintf sb_edac edac_core lpc_ich mfd_core tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler isci igb libsas i2c_algo_bit ixgbe ptp pps_core mdio
<4>[196727.311333] CPU: 17 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/17 Not tainted 3.10.26 #1
<4>[196727.311344] Hardware name: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4+/X9DR3-LN4+/X9DRi-LN4+/X9DR3-LN4+, BIOS 3.0 07/05/2013
<4>[196727.311364] task: ffff885e6f069700 ti: ffff885e6f072000 task.ti: ffff885e6f072000
<4>[196727.311377] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff815f8c7f>]  [<ffffffff815f8c7f>] ipv4_dst_destroy+0x4f/0x80
<4>[196727.311399] RSP: 0018:ffff885effd23a70  EFLAGS: 00010282
<4>[196727.311409] RAX: dead000000200200 RBX: ffff8854c398ecc0 RCX: 0000000000000040
<4>[196727.311423] RDX: dead000000100100 RSI: dead000000100100 RDI: dead000000200200
<4>[196727.311437] RBP: ffff885effd23a80 R08: ffffffff815fd9e0 R09: ffff885d5a590800
<4>[196727.311451] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
<4>[196727.311464] R13: ffffffff81c8c280 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880e85ee16ce
<4>[196727.311510] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff885effd20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
<4>[196727.311554] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
<4>[196727.311581] CR2: 00007a46751eb000 CR3: 0000005e65688000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
<4>[196727.311625] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
<4>[196727.311669] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
<4>[196727.311713] Stack:
<4>[196727.311733]  ffff8854c398ecc0 ffff8854c398ecc0 ffff885effd23ab0 ffffffff815b7f42
<4>[196727.311784]  ffff88be6595bc00 ffff8854c398ecc0 0000000000000000 ffff8854c398ecc0
<4>[196727.311834]  ffff885effd23ad0 ffffffff815b86c6 ffff885d5a590800 ffff8816827821c0
<4>[196727.311885] Call Trace:
<4>[196727.311907]  <IRQ>
<4>[196727.311912]  [<ffffffff815b7f42>] dst_destroy+0x32/0xe0
<4>[196727.311959]  [<ffffffff815b86c6>] dst_release+0x56/0x80
<4>[196727.311986]  [<ffffffff81620bd5>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x2a5/0x4a0
<4>[196727.312013]  [<ffffffff81622b5a>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x7da/0x820
<4>[196727.312041]  [<ffffffff815fd9e0>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360
<4>[196727.312070]  [<ffffffff815de02d>] ? nf_hook_slow+0x7d/0x150
<4>[196727.312097]  [<ffffffff815fd9e0>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360
<4>[196727.312125]  [<ffffffff815fda92>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0xb2/0x230
<4>[196727.312154]  [<ffffffff815fdd9a>] ip_local_deliver+0x4a/0x90
<4>[196727.312183]  [<ffffffff815fd799>] ip_rcv_finish+0x119/0x360
<4>[196727.312212]  [<ffffffff815fe00b>] ip_rcv+0x22b/0x340
<4>[196727.312242]  [<ffffffffa0339680>] ? macvlan_broadcast+0x160/0x160 [macvlan]
<4>[196727.312275]  [<ffffffff815b0c62>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x512/0x640
<4>[196727.312308]  [<ffffffff811427fb>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x13b/0x150
<4>[196727.312338]  [<ffffffff815b0db1>] __netif_receive_skb+0x21/0x70
<4>[196727.312368]  [<ffffffff815b0fa1>] netif_receive_skb+0x31/0xa0
<4>[196727.312397]  [<ffffffff815b1ae8>] napi_gro_receive+0xe8/0x140
<4>[196727.312433]  [<ffffffffa00274f1>] ixgbe_poll+0x551/0x11f0 [ixgbe]
<4>[196727.312463]  [<ffffffff815fe00b>] ? ip_rcv+0x22b/0x340
<4>[196727.312491]  [<ffffffff815b1691>] net_rx_action+0x111/0x210
<4>[196727.312521]  [<ffffffff815b0db1>] ? __netif_receive_skb+0x21/0x70
<4>[196727.312552]  [<ffffffff810519d0>] __do_softirq+0xd0/0x270
<4>[196727.312583]  [<ffffffff816cef3c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
<4>[196727.312613]  [<ffffffff81004205>] do_softirq+0x55/0x90
<4>[196727.312640]  [<ffffffff81051c85>] irq_exit+0x55/0x60
<4>[196727.312668]  [<ffffffff816cf5c3>] do_IRQ+0x63/0xe0
<4>[196727.312696]  [<ffffffff816c5aaa>] common_interrupt+0x6a/0x6a
<4>[196727.312722]  <EOI>
<1>[196727.313071] RIP  [<ffffffff815f8c7f>] ipv4_dst_destroy+0x4f/0x80
<4>[196727.313100]  RSP <ffff885effd23a70>
<4>[196727.313377] ---[ end trace 64b3f14fae0f2e29 ]---
<0>[196727.380908] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Reported-by: Alexey Preobrazhensky <preobr@google.com>
Reported-by: dormando <dormando@rydia.ne>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: 8141ed9fcedb2 ("ipv4: Add a socket release callback for datagram sockets")
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: datagram.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -86,18 +86,26 @@ int ip4_datagram_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip4_datagram_connect);
 
+/* Because UDP xmit path can manipulate sk_dst_cache without holding
+ * socket lock, we need to use sk_dst_set() here,
+ * even if we own the socket lock.
+ */
 void ip4_datagram_release_cb(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	const struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
 	const struct ip_options_rcu *inet_opt;
 	__be32 daddr = inet->inet_daddr;
+	struct dst_entry *dst;
 	struct flowi4 fl4;
 	struct rtable *rt;
 
-	if (! __sk_dst_get(sk) || __sk_dst_check(sk, 0))
-		return;
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	dst = __sk_dst_get(sk);
+	if (!dst || !dst->obsolete || dst->ops->check(dst, 0)) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		return;
+	}
 	inet_opt = rcu_dereference(inet->inet_opt);
 	if (inet_opt && inet_opt->opt.srr)
 		daddr = inet_opt->opt.faddr;
@@ -105,8 +113,10 @@ void ip4_datagram_release_cb(struct sock *sk)
 				   inet->inet_saddr, inet->inet_dport,
 				   inet->inet_sport, sk->sk_protocol,
 				   RT_CONN_FLAGS(sk), sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
-	if (!IS_ERR(rt))
-		__sk_dst_set(sk, &rt->dst);
+
+	dst = !IS_ERR(rt) ? &rt->dst : NULL;
+	sk_dst_set(sk, dst);
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip4_datagram_release_cb);

programming_language: C