🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 iommufd 구성 요소에서 파일 디스크립터 중단 시 발생하는 레이스 컨디션 취약점입니다. 새로운 객체 할당이 완료되기 전에 파일이 해제되고 객체가 즉시 메모리에서 해제됨으로써, 나중에 파일 해제 작업이 수행될 때 Use-After-Free(UAF) 오류가 발생합니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
컴퓨터가 파일을 정리하는 과정에서 순서가 꼬여, 이미 삭제된 데이터를 다시 사용하려고 시도하는 문제입니다. 이로 인해 시스템이 충돌하거나 보안 공격에 악용될 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors
fput() doesn't actually call file_operations release() synchronously, it
puts the file on a work queue and it will be released eventually.
This is normally fine, except for iommufd the file and the iommufd_object
are tied to gether. The file has the object as it's private_data and holds
a users refcount, while the object is expected to remain alive as long as
the file is.
When the allocation of a new object aborts before installing the file it
will fput() the file and then go on to immediately kfree() the obj. This
causes a UAF once the workqueue completes the fput() and tries to
decrement the users refcount.
Fix this by putting the core code in charge of the file lifetime, and call
__fput_sync() during abort to ensure that release() is called before
kfree. __fput_sync() is a bit too tricky to open code in all the object
implementations. Instead the objects tell the core code where the file
pointer is and the core will take care of the life cycle.
If the object is successfully allocated then the file will hold a users
refcount and the iommufd_object cannot be destroyed.
It is worth noting that close(); ioctl(IOMMU_DESTROY); doesn't have an
issue because close() is already using a synchronous version of fput().
The UAF looks like this:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in iommufd_eventq_fops_release+0x45/0xc0 drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c:376
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888059c97804 by task syz.0.46/6164
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6164 Comm: syz.0.46 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x100/0x1b0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
__refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:455 [inline]
refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:476 [inline]
iommufd_eventq_fops_release+0x45/0xc0 drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c:376
__fput+0x402/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xeb/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x41c/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (iommufd driver enabled)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
특수하게 조작된 시스템 호출을 통해 객체 할당 중 중단(abort)을 유도하여 메모리 오류 발생
🛡️ 대응 방법
iommufd 관련 커널 패치를 적용하거나 최신 안정화 버전의 Linux 커널로 업데이트
🔧 검증 코드
현재 실행 중인 커널 버전을 확인하여 취약점이 해결된 최신 패치 버전인지 확인합니다.