CVE-2024-46740
Published: Sep 18, 2024
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix UAF caused by offsets overwrite Binder objects are processed and copied individually into the target buffer during transactions. Any raw data in-between these objects is copied as well. However, this raw data copy lacks an out-of-bounds check. If the raw data exceeds the data section size then the copy overwrites the offsets section. This eventually triggers an error that attempts to unwind the processed objects. However, at this point the offsets used to index these objects are now corrupted. Unwinding with corrupted offsets can result in decrements of arbitrary nodes and lead to their premature release. Other users of such nodes are left with a dangling pointer triggering a use-after-free. This issue is made evident by the following KASAN report (trimmed): ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c Write of size 4 at addr ffff47fc91598f04 by task binder-util/743 CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 743 Comm: binder-util Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c binder_free_buf+0x128/0x434 binder_thread_write+0x8a4/0x3260 binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c [...] Allocated by task 743: __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x110/0x270 binder_new_node+0x50/0x700 binder_transaction+0x413c/0x6da8 binder_thread_write+0x978/0x3260 binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c [...] Freed by task 745: kfree+0xbc/0x208 binder_thread_read+0x1c5c/0x37d4 binder_ioctl+0x16d8/0x258c [...] ================================================================== To avoid this issue, let's check that the raw data copy is within the boundaries of the data section.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected c056a6ba35e00ae943e377eb09abd77a6915b31a - < 5a32bfd23022ffa7e152f273fa3fa29befb7d929affected 23e9d815fad84c1bee3742a8de4bd39510435362 - < 3a8154bb4ab4a01390a3abf1e6afac296e037da4affected 7a9ad4aceb0226b391c9d3b8e4ac2e7d438b6bde - < eef79854a04feac5b861f94d7b19cbbe79874117affected 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c - < 4f79e0b80dc69bd5eaaed70f0df1b558728b4e59affected 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c - < 1f33d9f1d9ac3f0129f8508925000900c2fe5bb0+7 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.17unaffected 0 - < 5.17unaffected 5.4.284 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.226 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.167 - <= 5.15.*+4 more versions |
References
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