Local privilege escalation via premature request-pool teardown
Published May 14, 2021 · Updated Aug 5, 2024
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel block subsystem before 5.2 allows local users to execute code in kernel context and gain privileges. The cleanup path postpones freeing scheduler requests until queue release, when their tag set can already be gone; blk_mq_free_rqs then dereferences freed loop-device request memory. Triggering the demonstrated path requires local access to remove a loop device while deferred queue-release work tears down its I/O scheduler; the result is a kernel crash or arbitrary kernel-context code execution.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel block subsystem before 5.2 allows local users to execute code in kernel context and gain privileges. The cleanup path postpones freeing scheduler requests until queue release, when their tag set can already be gone; blk_mq_free_rqs then dereferences freed loop-device request memory. Triggering the demonstrated path requires local access to remove a loop device while deferred queue-release work tears down its I/O scheduler; the result is a kernel crash or arbitrary kernel-context code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2019-25044
- Published
- May 14, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 14, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- Syzkaller C reproducer for blk_mq_free_rqs use-after-freeproof of concept · demonstrated
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