CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52609

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-03-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix race between mmput() and do_exit() Task A calls binder_update_page_range() to allocate and insert pages on a remote address space from Task B. For this, Task A pins the remote mm via mmget_not_zero() first. This can race with Task B do_exit() and the final mmput() refcount decrement will come from Task A. Task A | Task B ------------------+------------------ mmget_not_zero() | | do_exit() | exit_mm() | mmput() mmput() | exit_mmap() | remove_vma() | fput() | In this case, the work of ____fput() from Task B is queued up in Task A as TWA_RESUME. So in theory, Task A returns to userspace and the cleanup work gets executed. However, Task A instead sleep, waiting for a reply from Task B that never comes (it's dead). This means the binder_deferred_release() is blocked until an unrelated binder event forces Task A to go back to userspace. All the associated death notifications will also be delayed until then. In order to fix this use mmput_async() that will schedule the work in the corresponding mm->async_put_work WQ instead of Task A.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.29 < 4.19.306) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.268) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.209) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.148) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.75) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.2) • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References