🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 f_midi 드라이버에서 MIDI 객체가 해제되기 전에 대기 중인 IN 작업(work item)을 취소하지 않아 발생하는 Use-After-Free 취약점입니다. f_midi_disable() 또는 f_midi_unbind() 호출 시 작업 항목이 동기화되지 않아, 객체가 메모리에서 해제된 후에도 핸들러가 해당 메모리에 접근할 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
컴퓨터가 사용 중인 데이터 메모리를 삭제했는데, 시스템의 다른 부분이 여전히 그 삭제된 데이터를 사용하려고 시도하면서 발생하는 오류입니다. 이로 인해 시스템이 충돌하거나 보안 문제가 생길 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_midi: cancel pending IN work before freeing the midi object
The f_midi driver embeds a work item (midi->work) whose handler,
f_midi_in_work(), dereferences the enclosing struct f_midi through
container_of(). This work is armed from two sites: f_midi_complete(),
on a normal IN-endpoint completion, and f_midi_in_trigger(), on an ALSA
rawmidi output-stream start.
Neither f_midi_disable() nor f_midi_unbind() cancels midi->work.
f_midi_disable() only disables the endpoints and drains the in_req_fifo;
it does not synchronize the work item, and the sound card is released
asynchronously to the final free of the midi object.
The midi object is reference-counted (midi->free_ref) and is freed in
f_midi_free() only once both the usb_function reference and the rawmidi
private_data reference have been dropped. In f_midi_unbind(),
f_midi_disable() runs before the sound card is released, so while the
USB endpoints are already disabled the rawmidi device is still usable by
an open substream. A concurrent userspace write on such a substream can
reach f_midi_in_trigger() and queue midi->work again after
f_midi_disable() has returned. A work item armed this way may still be
pending when the last reference drops and f_midi_free() proceeds to
kfree(midi), letting f_midi_in_work() dereference the struct after it
has been freed, a use-after-free.
For this reason cancelling midi->work in f_midi_disable() would not be
sufficient: the ALSA trigger path can rearm the work after disable()
returns. Cancelling at the refcount-zero free site is the boundary
after which neither arming source can survive, because by then both
references that keep the midi object alive have been dropped: the USB
endpoints are already disabled and the rawmidi device has been released.
Fix this by calling cancel_work_sync(&midi->work) in the refcount-zero
block of f_midi_free(), before the embedded work_struct is freed along
with the rest of the structure. opts->lock is a sleeping mutex, so
calling cancel_work_sync() under it is permitted, and the handler takes
midi->transmit_lock rather than opts->lock, so no self-deadlock can
occur while it waits for a running instance of the work to finish.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (f_midi driver 포함 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
USB MIDI 장치 연결 및 ALSA rawmidi 스트림을 이용한 특정 타이밍의 데이터 쓰기 유도
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 f_midi_free() 내에 cancel_work_sync() 호출을 적용해야 합니다.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전을 확인하여 해당 취약점이 해결된 패치 버전인지 확인합니다.