Bug 2120175 (CVE-2022-2938) - CVE-2022-2938 kernel: use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled
Summary: CVE-2022-2938 kernel: use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while bein...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2022-2938
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2046396 2120199 2120456 2120457
Blocks: 2069818 2120313
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Reported: 2022-08-22 04:08 UTC by Wade Mealing
Modified: 2024-03-15 06:09 UTC (History)
53 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 5.17
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of Pressure Stall Information. While the feature is disabled by default, it could allow an attacker to crash the system or have other memory-corruption side effects.
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Last Closed: 2022-12-04 06:33:13 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7444 0 None None None 2022-11-08 09:10:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7683 0 None None None 2022-11-08 10:10:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:1188 0 None None None 2024-03-06 12:36:29 UTC

Description Wade Mealing 2022-08-22 04:08:20 UTC 
A flaw was found in the Linux kernels pressure stall information subsystem. An local attacker able to register a PSI trigger and wait using the poll() call can create a use-after-free issue and possibly cause other unknown side-affects in kernel space.

The pressure stall subsystem is built with CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED, which means it needs to be explicityl enabled with a kernel boot time parameter of 'psi=1'.   Without this parameter the system is not affected.


Upstream:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a06247c6804f1a7c86a2e5398a4c1f1db1471848
Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2022-08-22 07:02:27 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2120199]
Comment 4 Justin M. Forbes 2022-08-22 21:02:34 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.15.19 stable kernel updates.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 09:10:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7444 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7444
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 10:10:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7683 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7683
Comment 13 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-04 06:33:10 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-2938
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2024-03-06 12:36:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:1188 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1188
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