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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:00:18 +0530
From: Rohit Keshri <rkeshri@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, alex.gaynor@...il.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-20226 kernel: use-after-free in io_uring feature
Hello,
The flaw CVE-2021-20226 is identified as a use-after-free problem with
breach to data integrity, confidentiality and system availability, and
this may even cause escalated privileges with good troubleshooting
skills.
I also wanted to add that the affected souce (as was reported for
kernel v5.7.0) has been modified from v5.10 kernel version with patch
233295130e53 with following cleanup details.
~~~
$ git show 233295130e53
commit 233295130e53c8dfe6dbef3f52634c3f7e44cd6a
Author: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
Date: Sat Oct 10 18:34:06 2020 +0100
io_uring: clean up ->files grabbing
Move work.files grabbing into io_prep_async_work() to all other work
resources initialisation. We don't need to keep it separately now, as
->ring_fd/file are gone. It also allows to not grab it when a request
is not going to io-wq.
..
$ git tag --contains 233295130e53
v5.10
v5.10-rc1
v5.10-rc2
v5.10-rc3
v5.10-rc4
v5.10-rc5
v5.10-rc6
v5.10-rc7
v5.11-rc1
v5.11-rc2
v5.11-rc3
v5.11-rc4
v5.11-rc5
v5.11-rc6
v5.11-rc7
~~~
Regards,
..
Rohit Keshri / Red Hat Product Security Team
PGP: OX01BC 858A 07B7 15C8 EF33 BFE2 2EEB 0CBC 84A4 4C2D
secalert@...hat.com for urgent response
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:37 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Your message says that this is a DoS, however the ZDI page says it's a
> priv-esc. Which is right?
>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:00 AM Rohit Keshri <rkeshri@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Team,
> >
> > A use-after-free flaw was found in the io_uring in Linux kernel, where a
> > local attacker with a user privilege could cause a denial of service
> > problem on the system
> >
> > The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object
> > prior to performing operations on the object by not incrementing the file
> > reference counter while in use.
> >
> > The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity,
> > confidentiality and system availability.
> >
> >
> > 'CVE-2021-20226' was assigned by Red Hat.
> >
> > This issue was reported by Ryota Shiga of Flatt Security Team.
> >
> >
> > Reference:
> >
> > https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-001/
> >
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > ..
> > Rohit Keshri / Red Hat Product Security Team
> > PGP: OX01BC 858A 07B7 15C8 EF33 BFE2 2EEB 0CBC 84A4 4C2D
> >
> > secalert@...hat.com for urgent response
>
>
>
> --
> All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
>
>
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