💣Exploit CVE-2024-50254 - Linux Kernel bpf Memory Leak Vulnerability

[Maksim]

CVE ID : CVE-2024-50254
Published : Nov. 9, 2024, 11:15 a.m. | 28 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy() bpf_iter_bits_destroy() uses "kit->nr_bits 0", pid 1, jiffies 4294727320 hex dump (first 32 bytes): b0 c1 55 f5 81 88 ff ff f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 ..U........... f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .............. backtrace (crc 781e32cc): [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80 [] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x480/0x5c0 [] __alloc.isra.0+0x89/0xb0 [] alloc_bulk+0x2af/0x720 [] prefill_mem_cache+0x7f/0xb0 [] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0x3e2/0x610 [] bpf_global_ma_init+0x19/0x30 [] do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x3c0 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x66a/0x940 [] kernel_init+0x20/0x160 [] ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x70 [] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 That is because nr_bits will be set as zero in bpf_iter_bits_next() after all bits have been iterated. Fix the issue by setting kit->bit to kit->nr_bits instead of setting kit->nr_bits to zero when the iteration completes in bpf_iter_bits_next(). In addition, use "!nr_bits || bits >= nr_bits" to check whether the iteration is complete and still use "nr_bits > 64" to indicate whether bits are dynamically allocated. The "!nr_bits" check is necessary because bpf_iter_bits_new() may fail before setting kit->nr_bits, and this condition will stop the iteration early instead of accessing the zeroed or freed kit->bits. Considering the initial value of kit->bits is -1 and the type of kit->nr_bits is unsigned int, change the type of kit->nr_bits to int. The potential overflow problem will be handled in the following patch.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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