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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 18, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 20, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

apparmor: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

profile->parent->dents[AAFS_PROF_DIR] could be NULL only if its parent is made
from __create_missing_ancestors(..) and 'ent->old' is NULL in
aa_replace_profiles(..).
In that case, it must return an error code and the code, -ENOENT represents
its state that the path of its parent is not existed yet.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030
PGD 0 P4D 0
PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 PID: 3362 Comm: apparmor_parser Not tainted 6.8.0-24-generic #24
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:aafs_create.constprop.0+0x7f/0x130
Code: 4c 63 e0 48 83 c4 18 4c 89 e0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 45 31 d2 c3 cc cc cc cc <4d> 8b 55 30 4d 8d ba a0 00 00 00 4c 89 55 c0 4c 89 ff e8 7a 6a ae
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b2c7c98 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000041ed RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000b2c7cd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82baac10
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007be9f22cf740(0000) GS:ffff88817bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 0000000134b08000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:

? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
? __die+0x24/0x80
? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0xb2/0x140
? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1a5/0x2c0
? find_vma+0x34/0x60
? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x30
? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a2/0x6b0
? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
? aafs_create.constprop.0+0x7f/0x130
? aafs_create.constprop.0+0x51/0x130
__aafs_profile_mkdir+0x3d6/0x480
aa_replace_profiles+0x83f/0x1270
policy_update+0xe3/0x180
profile_load+0xbc/0x150
? rw_verify_area+0x47/0x140
vfs_write+0x100/0x480
? __x64_sys_openat+0x55/0xa0
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x86/0x260
ksys_write+0x73/0x100
__x64_sys_write+0x19/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x7e/0x25c0
do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0x80
RIP: 0033:0x7be9f211c574
Code: c7 00 16 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d d5 ea 0e 00 00 74 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 48 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffd26f2b8c8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005d504415e200 RCX: 00007be9f211c574
RDX: 0000000000001fc1 RSI: 00005d504418bc80 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000001fc1 R08: 0000000000001fc1 R09: 0000000080000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00005d504418bc80
R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00007ffd26f2b9b0 R15: 00007ffd26f2ba30

Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer qrtr snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device i2c_i801 snd_timer i2c_smbus qxl snd soundcore drm_ttm_helper lpc_ich ttm joydev input_leds serio_raw mac_hid binfmt_misc msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore nfnetlink dmi_sysfs qemu_fw_cfg ip_tables x_tables autofs4 hid_generic usbhid hid ahci libahci psmouse virtio_rng xhci_pci xhci_pci_renesas
CR2: 0000000000000030
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:aafs_create.constprop.0+0x7f/0x130
Code: 4c 63 e0 48 83 c4 18 4c 89 e0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 45 31 d2 c3 cc cc cc cc <4d> 8b 55 30 4d 8d ba a0 00 00 00 4c 89 55 c0 4c 89 ff e8 7a 6a ae
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b2c7c98 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000041ed RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000b2c7cd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 18, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 18, 2024
Last updated Sep 20, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-46721

GHSA ID

GHSA-3mwh-qccg-vxm7

Source code

No known source code

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