CVE-2024-53108 - Out-of-bounds Read

Severity

71%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

86%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Adjust VSDB parser for replay feature At some point, the IEEE ID identification for the replay check in the AMD EDID was added. However, this check causes the following out-of-bounds issues when using KASAN: [ 27.804016] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in amdgpu_dm_update_freesync_caps+0xefa/0x17a0 [amdgpu] [ 27.804788] Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881647fdb00 by task systemd-udevd/383 ... [ 27.821207] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 27.821215] ffff8881647fda00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 27.821224] ffff8881647fda80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 27.821234] >ffff8881647fdb00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 27.821243] ^ [ 27.821250] ffff8881647fdb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 27.821259] ffff8881647fdc00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 27.821268] ================================================================== This is caused because the ID extraction happens outside of the range of the edid lenght. This commit addresses this issue by considering the amd_vsdb_block size. (cherry picked from commit b7e381b1ccd5e778e3d9c44c669ad38439a861d8)

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H).

Demo Examples

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

In the following code, the method retrieves a value from an array at a specific array index location that is given as an input parameter to the method


               
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return value;// check that the array index is less than the maximum// length of the array
value = array[index];// get the value at the specified index of the array
// if array index is invalid then output error message// and return value indicating error
value = -1;

However, this method only verifies that the given array index is less than the maximum length of the array but does not check for the minimum value (CWE-839). This will allow a negative value to be accepted as the input array index, which will result in a out of bounds read (CWE-125) and may allow access to sensitive memory. The input array index should be checked to verify that is within the maximum and minimum range required for the array (CWE-129). In this example the if statement should be modified to include a minimum range check, as shown below.


               
...// check that the array index is within the correct// range of values for the array

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