Bug 2334419 (CVE-2024-53174)

Summary:	CVE-2024-53174 kernel: SUNRPC: make sure cache entry active before cache_show
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, rhel-process-autobot, vkumar, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SUNRPC (Sun Remote Procedure Call) subsystem. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by reading RPC cache entries, triggering a use-after-free condition where memory is accessed after being marked for release. This issue occurs because the cache display mechanism fails to ensure an entry is active before incrementing its reference count, leading to an unexpected system crash or potential memory leak.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 14:05:47 UTC

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

SUNRPC: make sure cache entry active before cache_show

The function `c_show` was called with protection from RCU. This only
ensures that `cp` will not be freed. Therefore, the reference count for
`cp` can drop to zero, which will trigger a refcount use-after-free
warning when `cache_get` is called. To resolve this issue, use
`cache_get_rcu` to ensure that `cp` remains active.

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refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 822 at lib/refcount.c:25
refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 822 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 c_show+0x2fc/0x380 [sunrpc]
 seq_read_iter+0x589/0x770
 seq_read+0x1e5/0x270
 proc_reg_read+0xe1/0x140
 vfs_read+0x125/0x530
 ksys_read+0xc1/0x160
 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 09:58:41 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122717-CVE-2024-53174-d29a@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966