CVE-2024-46740

binder: fix UAF caused by offsets overwrite

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 18, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2024

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c056a6ba35e00ae943e377eb09abd77a6915b31a to before 5a32bfd23022ffa7e152f273fa3fa29befb7d929Affected
  • 23e9d815fad84c1bee3742a8de4bd39510435362 to before 3a8154bb4ab4a01390a3abf1e6afac296e037da4Affected
  • 7a9ad4aceb0226b391c9d3b8e4ac2e7d438b6bde to before eef79854a04feac5b861f94d7b19cbbe79874117Affected
  • 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c to before 4f79e0b80dc69bd5eaaed70f0df1b558728b4e59Affected
  • 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c to before 1f33d9f1d9ac3f0129f8508925000900c2fe5bb0Affected
  • 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c to before 109e845c1184c9f786d41516348ba3efd9112792Affected
  • 6d98eb95b450a75adb4516a1d33652dc78d2b20c to before 4df153652cc46545722879415937582028c18af5Affected
  • 66e12f5b3a9733f941893a00753b10498724607dAffected
  • 5.4.226 to before 5.4.284Affected
  • 5.10.157 to before 5.10.226Affected
  • 5.15.17 to before 5.15.167Affected
  • 5.16.3 to before 5.17Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.17Affected
  • before 5.17Not affected
  • 5.4.284 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.226 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.167 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.110 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.51 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.10 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

References

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