Bug 2334575 (CVE-2024-56558)

Summary:	CVE-2024-56558 kernel: nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:04:35 UTC

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

nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show

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

------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 819 at lib/refcount.c:25
refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 819 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>
 e_show+0x20b/0x230 [nfsd]
 seq_read_iter+0x589/0x770
 seq_read+0x1e5/0x270
 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 01:06:18 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122712-CVE-2024-56558-9fd9@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:56 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