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High · 7.8 CVE-2023-52438 EUVD-2023-57063GHSA-25g3-q597-79m8

binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback

Published Feb 20, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback

The mmap read lock is used during the shrinker's callback, which means
that using alloc->vma pointer isn't safe as it can race with munmap().
As of commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in
munmap") the mmap lock is downgraded after the vma has been isolated.

I was able to reproduce this issue by manually adding some delays and
triggering page reclaiming through the shrinker's debug sysfs. The
following KASAN report confirms the UAF:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8
Read of size 8 at addr ffff356ed50e50f0 by task bash/478

CPU: 1 PID: 478 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.6.0-rc5-00055-g1c8b86a3799f-dirty #70
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8
binder_alloc_free_page+0x608/0xadc
__list_lru_walk_one+0x130/0x3b0
list_lru_walk_node+0xc4/0x22c
binder_shrink_scan+0x108/0x1dc
shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x2b4/0x500
full_proxy_write+0xd4/0x140
vfs_write+0x1ac/0x758
ksys_write+0xf0/0x1dc
__arm64_sys_write+0x6c/0x9c

Allocated by task 492:
kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x368
vm_area_alloc+0x2c/0x190
mmap_region+0x258/0x18bc
do_mmap+0x694/0xa60
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x170/0x29c
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x290/0x3a0
__arm64_sys_mmap+0xcc/0x144

Freed by task 491:
kmem_cache_free+0x17c/0x3c8
vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0x74/0x98
rcu_core+0xa38/0x26d4
rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c
__do_softirq+0x2fc/0xd24

Last potentially related work creation:
__call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0xba0
call_rcu+0x10/0x1c
vm_area_free+0x18/0x24
remove_vma+0xe4/0x118
do_vmi_align_munmap.isra.0+0x718/0xb5c
do_vmi_munmap+0xdc/0x1fc
__vm_munmap+0x10c/0x278
__arm64_sys_munmap+0x58/0x7c

Fix this issue by performing instead a vma_lookup() which will fail to
find the vma that was isolated before the mmap lock downgrade. Note that
this option has better performance than upgrading to a mmap write lock
which would increase contention. Plus, mmap_write_trylock() has been
recently removed anyway.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.20 5.4.268

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.6.13-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.6.13-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.76-1 —
Debian 10 linux-5.10 5.10.209-2~deb10u1 DLA-3841-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1040.42 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-102.112 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1057.63 USN-6725-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.5 6.5.0-1017.17~22.04.2 USN-6724-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1060.69 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.5 6.5.0-1018.19~22.04.2 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1060.69.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1055.63 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.5 6.5.0-1017.17~22.04.1 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1054.59 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1040.46 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-27.28~22.04.1 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 5.15.0-1050.53 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1052.58 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-27.28.1~22.04.1 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1048.48 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.5 6.5.0-1014.14 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1025.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1012.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oem-6.1 6.1.0-1035.35 USN-6688-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oem-6.5 6.5.0-1019.20 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1055.61 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.5 6.5.0-1020.20~22.04.1 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +21 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-starfive-6.5 6.5.0-1011.12~22.04.1 USN-6724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1030.34 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-176.196 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1122.132 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1057.63~20.04.1 USN-6725-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1127.134 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1060.69~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1060.69~20.04.1.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1082.89 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1126.135 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1055.63~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1089.93 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1040.46~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-102.112~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1069.74 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1050.53~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1052.58~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1034.35 USN-6726-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1110.117 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1025.25~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1121.130 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1055.61~20.04.1 USN-6725-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1106.118 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1053.57~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1041.45 USN-6726-3
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2001.1 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1050.52 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1058.66 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1057.63+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1060.69+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-102.112+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1055.63+fips2 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1122.132+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1127.134+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1096.106 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1126.135+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1122.132~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1127.134~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1126.135~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-175.195~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1069.74~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1121.130~18.04.1 USN-6726-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1106.118~18.04.1 USN-6726-1

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