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GHSA-G64M-M7R3-J854

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-17 12:32 – Updated: 2025-01-27 15:30
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL pointer dereference at the second time:

| scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
|   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
|   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
|   SET = 0, FnV = 0
|   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
|   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| Data abort info:
|   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
|   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
|   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000
| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793
| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
| pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| Call trace:
|  smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
|  idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8
|  scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58
|  scmi_probe+0x434/0x734
|  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
|  really_probe+0x110/0x27c
|  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
|  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
|  __driver_attach+0x74/0x128
|  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0
|  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
|  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8
|  driver_register+0x60/0x128
|  __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34
|  scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0
|  do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c
|  kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c
|  kernel_init+0x24/0x130
|  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access its members, to avoid this situation.

This was found when a transport doesn't really work (for instance no SMC service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.

Show details on source website

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-26893"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-415"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-04-17T11:15:10Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path\n\nWhen the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free\ncallback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols\nmight share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to\nclean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport\nimplementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL\npointer dereference at the second time:\n\n    | scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16\n    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.\n    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI\n    | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\n    | Mem abort info:\n    |   ESR = 0x0000000096000004\n    |   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits\n    |   SET = 0, FnV = 0\n    |   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0\n    |   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault\n    | Data abort info:\n    |   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000\n    |   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0\n    |   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0\n    | user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000\n    | [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000\n    | Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n    | Modules linked in:\n    | CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793\n    | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)\n    | pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n    | pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c\n    | lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c\n    | Call trace:\n    |  smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c\n    |  idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8\n    |  scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58\n    |  scmi_probe+0x434/0x734\n    |  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8\n    |  really_probe+0x110/0x27c\n    |  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c\n    |  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118\n    |  __driver_attach+0x74/0x128\n    |  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0\n    |  driver_attach+0x24/0x30\n    |  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8\n    |  driver_register+0x60/0x128\n    |  __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34\n    |  scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0\n    |  do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c\n    |  kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c\n    |  kernel_init+0x24/0x130\n    |  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n    | Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)\n    | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nSimply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access\nits members, to avoid this situation.\n\nThis was found when a transport doesn\u0027t really work (for instance no SMC\nservice), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.",
  "id": "GHSA-g64m-m7r3-j854",
  "modified": "2025-01-27T15:30:56Z",
  "published": "2024-04-17T12:32:05Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26893"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d276d9f335f41d6524258d58c0c0241ef9a83a4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/857f56db8c3a71f9871922b6984ff74ad588cb2c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ffaa17ccb1eb1b65cf85db63225a3581c303773"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ead445dd3d681020af333649a27306160eee761d"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d71576d2c9ec8fdb822173fa7f3de79475e9bd"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}



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