🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 ALSA(Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 시퀀서 구성 요소에서 FIFO 풀 크기 조정 시 오래된(stale) 셀이 남는 취약점이 발견되었습니다. 이로 인해 리사이징 과정에서 이전 풀의 카운터가 해제되지 않아 시스템이 풀 삭제를 기다리며 무한 대기 상태에 빠질 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
사운드 장치를 조절하는 과정에서 데이터 저장 공간을 늘리거나 줄일 때, 예전 데이터가 엉뚱한 곳에 남아 시스템이 멈추는 현상이 발생할 수 있습니다. 이로 인해 특정 작업이 완료되지 않고 계속 대기하는 상태가 될 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: seq: avoid stale FIFO cells during resize
snd_seq_fifo_resize() still needs to publish the replacement pool
before it waits for FIFO users. A blocking snd_seq_read() holds
f->use_lock while it sleeps, so concurrent senders must be able to
queue to the new pool and wake that reader instead of failing against a
closing old pool.
However, snd_seq_fifo_event_in() duplicates an event before it takes
f->lock, and snd_seq_read() can dequeue a cell and later call
snd_seq_fifo_cell_putback() if copy_to_user() or
snd_seq_expand_var_event() fails. If resize swaps f->pool and detaches
oldhead in between, either path can relink an old-pool cell after the
snapshot. That stale cell sits outside the drained oldhead list, keeps
oldpool->counter elevated, and can leave snd_seq_pool_delete() waiting
for the retired pool to drain.
Keep the existing swap-before-wait ordering in snd_seq_fifo_resize(),
but reject stale cells before any FIFO relink. Revalidate event-in cells
under f->lock and retry them against the published replacement pool, and
free stale putback cells instead of linking them back into the FIFO.
The buggy scenario involves two paths, with each column showing the
order within that path:
resize path: relink path:
1. Allocate newpool. 1. Take f->use_lock.
2. Swap f->pool to newpool and 2. Duplicate or dequeue an old-pool
detach oldhead. cell before oldpool closes.
3. Mark oldpool closing and 3. Reach a later relink point after
wait for FIFO users. resize published newpool.
4. Free oldhead and delete 4. Relink the old-pool cell after
oldpool. resize detached oldhead.
5. Drop f->use_lock.
The reproducer reports a resize ioctl blocked in the expected pool
teardown path:
signal: resize iteration=98 target_pool=4 exceeded 250ms
(elapsed=251ms)
diagnostic: resize_tid=651 wchan=snd_seq_pool_done
diagnostic: resize_tid=651 stack=
snd_seq_pool_done+0x5b/0x140
snd_seq_pool_delete+0x7a/0x90
snd_seq_fifo_resize+0x193/0x1e0
snd_seq_ioctl_set_client_pool+0x214/0x260
snd_seq_ioctl+0x119/0x540
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xd1/0x120
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x2f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
A second run with larger pools hit the same target path:
signal: resize iteration=32 target_pool=64 exceeded 250ms
(elapsed=251ms)
diagnostic: resize_tid=663 wchan=snd_seq_pool_done
diagnostic: resize_tid=663 stack=
snd_seq_pool_done+0x5b/0x140
snd_seq_pool_delete+0x7a/0x90
snd_seq_fifo_resize+0x193/0x1e0
snd_seq_ioctl_set_client_pool+0x214/0x260
snd_seq_ioctl+0x119/0x540
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xd1/0x120
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x2f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (ALSA seq component)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
로컬 사용자가 ALSA 시퀀서의 ioctl을 통해 의도적으로 빈번한 FIFO 리사이징을 유도하여 커널 스레드를 블로킹할 수 있음
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 snd_seq_fifo_resize() 및 관련 로직을 수정해야 함
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 해당 취약점이 해결된 패치 버전 이후인지 확인하십시오.