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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Nov 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 24, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix lock recursion

afs_wake_up_async_call() can incur lock recursion. The problem is that it
is called from AF_RXRPC whilst holding the ->notify_lock, but it tries to
take a ref on the afs_call struct in order to pass it to a work queue - but
if the afs_call is already queued, we then have an extraneous ref that must
be put... calling afs_put_call() may call back down into AF_RXRPC through
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call(), however, which might try taking the
->notify_lock again.

This case isn't very common, however, so defer it to a workqueue. The oops
looks something like:

BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, krxrpcio/7001/1646
lock: 0xffff888141399b30, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: krxrpcio/7001/1646, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1646 Comm: krxrpcio/7001 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-build3+ #4351
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70
do_raw_spin_lock+0x3c/0x90
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call+0x83/0xb0
afs_put_call+0xd7/0x180
rxrpc_notify_socket+0xa0/0x190
rxrpc_input_split_jumbo+0x198/0x1d0
rxrpc_input_data+0x14b/0x1e0
? rxrpc_input_call_packet+0xc2/0x1f0
rxrpc_input_call_event+0xad/0x6b0
rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn+0x1e1/0x210
rxrpc_input_packet+0x3f2/0x4d0
rxrpc_io_thread+0x243/0x410
? __pfx_rxrpc_io_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xcf/0xe0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2024
Last updated Dec 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-53090

GHSA ID

GHSA-f3pg-hppr-jf6f

Source code

No known source code

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