CVE-2023-52486

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.19.307 - Use-After-Free in DRM Page Flip Deadlock Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: Don't unref the same fb many times by mistake due to deadlock handling If we get a deadlock after the fb lookup in drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl() we proceed to unref the fb and then retry the whole thing from the top. But we forget to reset the fb pointer back to NULL, and so if we then get another error during the retry, before the fb lookup, we proceed the unref the same fb again without having gotten another reference. The end result is that the fb will (eventually) end up being freed while it's still in use. Reset fb to NULL once we've unreffed it to avoid doing it again until we've done another fb lookup. This turned out to be pretty easy to hit on a DG2 when doing async flips (and CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y). The first symptom I saw that drm_closefb() simply got stuck in a busy loop while walking the framebuffer list. Fortunately I was able to convince it to oops instead, and from there it was easier to track down the culprit.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 4.12.0 - 4.19.307linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.269linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.149linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.76linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.210linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.15linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.3linux
Linux/Linux < 4.12
Linux/Linux 29dc0d1de18239cf3ef8bab578b8321ed340d81c - 376e21a9e4c2c63ee5d8d3aa74be5082c3882229
Linux/Linux 29dc0d1de18239cf3ef8bab578b8321ed340d81c - 62f2e79cf9f4f47cc9dea9cebdf58d9f7b5695e0
... and 16 more
Published Mar 11, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026