CVE-2024-26598

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The root of the problem is that\nvgic_its_check_cache() does not elevate the refcount on the vgic_irq\nbefore dropping the lock that serializes refcount changes.\n\nHave vgic_its_check_cache() raise the refcount on the returned vgic_irq\nand add the corresponding decrement after queueing the interrupt."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - Exploitation requires running code inside a KVM/arm64 guest (to issue ITS DISCARD/MAPD commands via GITS_CWRITER) or holding local /dev/kvm access to drive KVM_SIGNAL_MSI, so the attacker needs local access to the host or a VM on it. No purely remote network path can drive both sides of the race.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race \u2014 one vCPU thread issues DISCARD/MAPD ITS commands while another CPU (vhost worker via irqfd, or a userspace KVM_SIGNAL_MSI thread) performs the cache lookup \u2014 and can prime the cache deterministically with an INT command and repeat the loop indefinitely without any detection or rate limit.\nPR:L - The attacker only needs to be an unprivileged guest (or a local unprivileged user with /dev/kvm access, which is standard on virtualization hosts); no host root or special capability is required, and ITS emulation is created by default by QEMU's virt machine with GICv3.\nUI:N - The entire sequence \u2014 MAPTI/INT to populate the translation cache, MSI generation, and the DISCARD command \u2014 is driven autonomously by the attacker from inside the guest. No victim action is needed.\nS:C - The vulnerable component is KVM's vGIC ITS emulation, whose security authority is the guest VM, but the corrupted memory is host kernel heap; a guest crossing into host kernel memory is a guest-to-host boundary violation.\nC:H - The freed vgic_irq can be reallocated with attacker-controlled data and is then read back (intid, priority, group, config, vcpu/target_vcpu pointers) and re-linked into live host kernel lists, giving an arbitrary-pointer dereference and kernel memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - The stale pointer is written through \u2014 spinlock acquire, pending_latch store, kref increment, and list_add_tail writing both into the freed chunk and storing its address into the live ap_list \u2014 a use-after-free write primitive leveragable for control-flow hijack and host privilege escalation.\nA:H - Even without successful heap grooming, the use-after-free corrupts the vgic ap_list and LPI list, reliably producing kernel oops, list-corruption 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The root of the problem is that\nvgic_its_check_cache() does not elevate the refcount on the vgic_irq\nbefore dropping the lock that serializes refcount changes.\n\nHave vgic_its_check_cache() raise the refcount on the returned vgic_irq\nand add the corresponding decrement after queueing the interrupt."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Evite posibles UAF en la cach\u00e9 de traducci\u00f3n LPI. Existe un escenario potencial de UAF en el caso de que un cach\u00e9 de traducci\u00f3n LPI se acelere con una operaci\u00f3n que invalide la cach\u00e9, como un comando DISCARD ITS. La ra\u00edz del problema es que vgic_its_check_cache() no eleva el refcount en vgic_irq antes de eliminar el bloqueo que serializa los cambios de refcount. 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The root of the problem is that\nvgic_its_check_cache() does not elevate the refcount on the vgic_irq\nbefore dropping the lock that serializes refcount changes.\nHave vgic_its_check_cache() raise the refcount on the returned vgic_irq\nand add the corresponding decrement after queueing the interrupt.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel pertaining to a potential use-after-free (UAF) scenario in a system involving Logical Partitioning Interrupts (LPI) translation cache operations. Specifically, the issue arises when a cache hit occurs concurrently with an operation that invalidates the cache, such as a DISCARD ITS command. The root cause is traced to vgic_its_check_cache() not appropriately managing the reference count of the vgic_irq object. Upon returning from this function, the reference count of vgic_irq is not incremented. This issue can lead to the object being prematurely freed while still in use by other parts of the system, potentially resulting in undefined behavior or system instability."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "No mitigation is currently available for this vulnerability. Make sure to perform the updates as they become available."}, "name": "CVE-2024-26598", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-02-23T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26598\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26598\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022338-CVE-2024-26598-24f4@gregkh/T/#u"], "statement": "The vulnerability is assessed as having a Moderate severity due to its potential to cause system instability or undefined behavior under specific conditions. Specifically, the issue arises from concurrent operations involving the LPI translation cache and commands that invalidate this cache, such as DISCARD ITS commands. The root cause lies in vgic_its_check_cache() failing to increment the reference count of the vgic_irq object before releasing the lock. This oversight can lead to a use-after-free scenario where the object may be prematurely freed while still in use elsewhere in the system. As a consequence, if the object is accessed or modified after being freed, it can result in unpredictable behavior, crashes, or even security vulnerabilities if an attacker can control the timing of cache invalidation and subsequent accesses.", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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