linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47221: mm/slub: actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning

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Message-ID: <2024052135-CVE-2021-47221-4e17@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:19:35 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47221: mm/slub: actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/slub: actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning

It turns out that SLUB redzoning ("slub_debug=Z") checks from
s->object_size rather than from s->inuse (which is normally bumped to
make room for the freelist pointer), so a cache created with an object
size less than 24 would have the freelist pointer written beyond
s->object_size, causing the redzone to be corrupted by the freelist
pointer.  This was very visible with "slub_debug=ZF":

  BUG test (Tainted: G    B            ): Right Redzone overwritten
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  INFO: 0xffff957ead1c05de-0xffff957ead1c05df @offset=1502. First byte 0x1a instead of 0xbb
  INFO: Slab 0xffffef3950b47000 objects=170 used=170 fp=0x0000000000000000 flags=0x8000000000000200
  INFO: Object 0xffff957ead1c05d8 @offset=1496 fp=0xffff957ead1c0620

  Redzone  (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb               ........
  Object   (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 f6 f4 a5               ........
  Redzone  (____ptrval____): 40 1d e8 1a aa                        @....
  Padding  (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00               ........

Adjust the offset to stay within s->object_size.

(Note that no caches of in this size range are known to exist in the
kernel currently.)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47221 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 89b83f282d8b and fixed in 5.10.46 with commit f6ed23575416
	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 89b83f282d8b and fixed in 5.12.13 with commit ce6e8bee7a38
	Issue introduced in 5.7 with commit 89b83f282d8b and fixed in 5.13 with commit e41a49fadbc8

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-47221
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	mm/slub.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6ed2357541612a13a5841b3af4dc32ed984a25f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6e8bee7a3883e8008b30f5887dbb426aac6a35
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41a49fadbc80b60b48d3c095d9e2ee7ef7c9a8e