Bug 1227792 (CVE-2024-40911) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-40911: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: Lock wiphy in cfg80211_get_station
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-40911: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: Lock wiphy in cfg80211_get_sta...
Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-40911
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Davide Benini
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/413838/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-40911:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported: 2024-07-15 12:20 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-07-16 13:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-07-15 12:20:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: Lock wiphy in cfg80211_get_station

Wiphy should be locked before calling rdev_get_station() (see lockdep
assert in ieee80211_get_station()).

This fixes the following kernel NULL dereference:

 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000050
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x0000000096000006
   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
   FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
   CM = 0, WnR = 0
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000003001000
 [0000000000000050] pgd=0800000002dca003, p4d=0800000002dca003, pud=08000000028e9003, pmd=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] SMP
 Modules linked in: netconsole dwc3_meson_g12a dwc3_of_simple dwc3 ip_gre gre ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath
 CPU: 0 PID: 1091 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 6.4.0-02144-g565f9a3a7911-dirty #705
 Hardware name: RPT (r1) (DT)
 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update
 pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : ath10k_sta_statistics+0x10/0x2dc [ath10k_core]
 lr : sta_set_sinfo+0xcc/0xbd4
 sp : ffff000007b43ad0
 x29: ffff000007b43ad0 x28: ffff0000071fa900 x27: ffff00000294ca98
 x26: ffff000006830880 x25: ffff000006830880 x24: ffff00000294c000
 x23: 0000000000000001 x22: ffff000007b43c90 x21: ffff800008898acc
 x20: ffff00000294c6e8 x19: ffff000007b43c90 x18: 0000000000000000
 x17: 445946354d552d78 x16: 62661f7200000000 x15: 57464f445946354d
 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 00000000000000e3 x12: d5f0acbcebea978e
 x11: 00000000000000e3 x10: 000000010048fe41 x9 : 0000000000000000
 x8 : ffff000007b43d90 x7 : 000000007a1e2125 x6 : 0000000000000000
 x5 : ffff0000024e0900 x4 : ffff800000a0250c x3 : ffff000007b43c90
 x2 : ffff00000294ca98 x1 : ffff000006831920 x0 : 0000000000000000
 Call trace:
  ath10k_sta_statistics+0x10/0x2dc [ath10k_core]
  sta_set_sinfo+0xcc/0xbd4
  ieee80211_get_station+0x2c/0x44
  cfg80211_get_station+0x80/0x154
  batadv_v_elp_get_throughput+0x138/0x1fc
  batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update+0x1c/0xa4
  process_one_work+0x1ec/0x414
  worker_thread+0x70/0x46c
  kthread+0xdc/0xe0
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
 Code: a9bb7bfd 910003fd a90153f3 f9411c40 (f9402814)

This happens because STA has time to disconnect and reconnect before
batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update() delayed work gets scheduled. In
this situation, ath10k_sta_state() can be in the middle of resetting
arsta data when the work queue get chance to be scheduled and ends up
accessing it. Locking wiphy prevents that.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-40911
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40911
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ccc63958d8373e15a69f4f8069f3e78f7f3898a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43e1eefb0b2094e2281150d87d09e8bc872b9fba
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/642f89daa34567d02f312d03e41523a894906dae
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d540b0317901535275020bd4ac44fac6439ca76
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfd84ce41663be9ca3f69bd657c45f49b69344d9
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-40911.mbox