From: Robb Glasser Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:16:55 +0000 (-0800) Subject: ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info X-Git-Tag: v4.4.106~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=659e7d2588f0fd970044fe00d9edeb482d375288;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info commit 362bca57f5d78220f8b5907b875961af9436e229 upstream. When the device descriptor is closed, the `substream->runtime` pointer is freed. But another thread may be in the ioctl handler, case SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_PCM_INFO. This case calls snd_pcm_info_user() which calls snd_pcm_info() which accesses the now freed `substream->runtime`. Note: this fixes CVE-2017-0861 Signed-off-by: Robb Glasser Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/sound/core/pcm.c b/sound/core/pcm.c index 8e980aa678d0d..074363b63cc4e 100644 --- a/sound/core/pcm.c +++ b/sound/core/pcm.c @@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ static int snd_pcm_control_ioctl(struct snd_card *card, err = -ENXIO; goto _error; } + mutex_lock(&pcm->open_mutex); err = snd_pcm_info_user(substream, info); + mutex_unlock(&pcm->open_mutex); _error: mutex_unlock(®ister_mutex); return err;