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CVE-2024-35872
published 2024-05-19

CVE-2024-35872: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() currently…

PriorityP418medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.23%
14.3th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is unreliable for this purpose. In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain(). Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio has been unmapped from the directmap. Fix it by removing that unreliable check.

Affected

18 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.85-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.85-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 6564b014af92b677c1f07c44d7f5b595d589cf6e6564b014af92b677c1f07c44d7f5b595d589cf6e
linuxlinux>= 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 9c2b4b657739ecda38e3b383354a29566955ac489c2b4b657739ecda38e3b383354a29566955ac48
linuxlinux>= 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 43fad1d0284de30159661d0badfc3cbaf7e6f8f843fad1d0284de30159661d0badfc3cbaf7e6f8f8
linuxlinux>= 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 201e4aaf405dfd1308da54448654053004c579b5201e4aaf405dfd1308da54448654053004c579b5
linuxlinux>= 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 65291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf770665291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf7706
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.85-16.1.85-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.15.0-116.1265.15.0-116.126
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-38.386.8.0-38.38
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.14 < 5.15.1545.15.154
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.16 < 6.1.856.1.85
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2 < 6.6.266.6.26
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7 < 6.8.56.8.5

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv6.8MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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