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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 16:06:03 +0100
From: Pietro Borrello <borrello@...g.uniroma1.it>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2023-1079: Linux Kernel: Use-After-Free in asus_kbd_backlight_set()
Hi all,
I'm disclosing a Use After Free that may be triggered when plugging in a
malicious USB device, which advertises itself as an asus device.
The device uses a worker `asus_worker` scheduled by asus_kbd_backlight_set() to
communicate with the hardware.
The work_struct is embedded in `struct asus_kbd_leds`, and at device removal,
`struct asus_kbd_leds` is freed.
However, concurrently with device removal, the LED controller
asus_kbd_backlight_set() may schedule a worker whose use would
result in a use-after-free.
Following the debug check triggered by freeing a work_struct in use:
```
[ 77.409878][ T1169] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 77.423606][ T1169] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object
type: work_struct hint: asus_kbd_backlight_work+0x0/0x2c0
[ 77.425222][ T1169] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1169 at
lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
[ 77.426599][ T1169] Modules linked in:
[ 77.427322][ T1169] CPU: 0 PID: 1169 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted
6.1.0-rc4-dirty #43
[ 77.428404][ T1169] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX,
1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
[ 77.429644][ T1169] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
[ 77.430296][ T1169] RIP: 0010:debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
[ 77.431142][ T1169] Code: 48 89 ef e8 28 82 58 ff 49 8b 14 24 4c 8b
45 00 48 c7 c7 40 5f 09 87 48 c7 c6 60 5b 09 87 89 d9 4d 89 f9 31 c0
e8 46 25 ef fe <0f> 0b 4c 8b 64 24 20 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df ff
05 4f 7c 17
[ 77.433691][ T1169] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000069ee60 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 77.434470][ T1169] RAX: b85d2b40c12d7600 RBX: 0000000000000000
RCX: ffff888117a78000
[ 77.435507][ T1169] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000
RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 77.436521][ T1169] RBP: ffffffff86e88380 R08: ffffffff8130793b
R09: ffffed103ecc4ed6
[ 77.437582][ T1169] R10: ffffed103ecc4ed6 R11: 0000000000000000
R12: ffffffff87095fb8
[ 77.438593][ T1169] R13: ffff88810e348fe0 R14: ffff88810e348fd4
R15: ffffffff852b5780
[ 77.439667][ T1169] FS: 0000000000000000(0000)
GS:ffff8881f6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 77.440842][ T1169] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 77.441688][ T1169] CR2: 00007ffc05495ff0 CR3: 000000010cdf0000
CR4: 00000000001006f0
[ 77.442720][ T1169] Call Trace:
[ 77.443167][ T1169] <TASK>
[ 77.443555][ T1169] slab_free_freelist_hook+0x89/0x160
[ 77.444302][ T1169] ? devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
[ 77.444990][ T1169] __kmem_cache_free+0x71/0x110
[ 77.445638][ T1169] devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
[ 77.446309][ T1169] ? devres_release+0x90/0x90
[ 77.446978][ T1169] device_release_driver_internal+0x5e5/0x8a0
[ 77.447748][ T1169] bus_remove_device+0x2ea/0x400
[ 77.448421][ T1169] device_del+0x64f/0xb40
[ 77.448976][ T1169] ? kill_device+0x150/0x150
[ 77.449577][ T1169] ? print_irqtrace_events+0x1f0/0x1f0
[ 77.450307][ T1169] hid_destroy_device+0x66/0x100
[ 77.450938][ T1169] usbhid_disconnect+0x9a/0xc0
```
The proposed patch uses a spinlock to safely prevent the worker to be scheduled
at device removal, and has been merged in the Linux tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=4ab3a086d10eeec1424f2e8a968827a6336203df
The issue has been assigned CVE-2023-1079.
Best regards,
Pietro Borrello
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