Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-58071 - Improper Locking vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: team: prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower Prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower, e.g. adding veth0 if vlan1 was already added and veth0 is a lower of vlan1. This is not useful in practice and can lead to recursive locking: $ ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1 $ ip link set veth0 up $ ip link set veth1 up $ ip link add link veth0 name veth0.1 type vlan protocol 802.1Q id 1 $ ip link add team0 type team $ ip link set veth0.1 down $ ip link set veth0.1 master team0 team0: Port device veth0.1 added $ ip link set veth0 down $ ip link set veth0 master team0 ============================================ WARNING: possible recursive locking detected 6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46 Not tainted -------------------------------------------- ip/7684 is trying to acquire lock: ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) but task is already holding lock: ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1147 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977) other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(team->team_lock_key); lock(team->team_lock_key); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 2 locks held by ip/7684: stack backtrace: CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 7684 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122) print_deadlock_bug.cold (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3040) __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3893 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226) ? netlink_broadcast_filtered (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1548) lock_acquire.part.0 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:467 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) ? trace_lock_acquire (./include/trace/events/lock.h:24 (discriminator 2)) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) ? lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5822) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) __mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) ? fib_sync_up (net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c:2167) ? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973) notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85) call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996) __dev_notify_flags (net/core/dev.c:8993) ? __dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:8975) dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:9027) vlan_device_event (net/8021q/vlan.c:85 net/8021q/vlan.c:470) ? br_device_event (net/bridge/br.c:143) notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85) call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996) dev_open (net/core/dev.c:1519 net/core/dev.c:1505) team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1219 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977) ? __pfx_team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1972) do_set_master (net/core/rtnetlink.c:2917) do_setlink.isra.0 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3117)
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links This attack leverages the use of symbolic links (Symlinks) in order to write to sensitive files. An attacker can create a Symlink link to a target file not otherwise accessible to her. When the privileged program tries to create a temporary file with the same name as the Symlink link, it will actually write to the target file pointed to by the attackers' Symlink link. If the attacker can insert malicious content in the temporary file she will be writing to the sensitive file by using the Symlink. The race occurs because the system checks if the temporary file exists, then creates the file. The attacker would typically create the Symlink during the interval between the check and the creation of the temporary file.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a7794b9ca78c8e7d001c583bf05736169de3f20
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/184a564e6000b41582f160a5be9a9b5aabe22ac1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bb06f919fa5bec77ad9b6002525c3dcc5c1fd6c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fff5da4ca2164bb4d0f1e6cd33f6eb8a0e73e50
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ff1615815d565448c37cb8a7a2a076492ec471
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adff6ac889e16d97abd1e4543f533221127e978a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd099a2fa9be983ba0e90a57a59484fe9d520ba8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9bce1310c0e2a55888e3e08c9f69d8377b3a377