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CVE-2024-44973
published 2024-09-04

CVE-2024-44973: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence…

PriorityP419medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.44%
36.1th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside do_slab_free to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot in __kmem_cache_free_bulk. This results in a crash like this: BUG skbuff_head_cache (Tainted: G S B E ): Padding overwritten. 0xffff88907fea0f00-0xffff88907fea0fff @offset=3840 slab_err (mm/slub.c:1129) free_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4036) slab_pad_check (mm/slub.c:864 mm/slub.c:1290) check_slab (mm/slub.c:?) free_to_partial_list (mm/slub.c:3171 mm/slub.c:4036) kmem_cache_alloc_bulk (mm/slub.c:? mm/slub.c:4495 mm/slub.c:4586 mm/slub.c:4635) napi_build_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:348 net/core/skbuff.c:527 net/core/skbuff.c:549) All the other callers to do_slab_free appear to be ok. Add a kfence_free check in __kmem_cache_free_bulk to avoid the crash.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.10.6-1 (forky)linux 6.10.6-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 782f8906f8057efc7151b4b98b0a0280a71d005f < b35cd7f1e969aaa63e6716d82480f6b8a3230949b35cd7f1e969aaa63e6716d82480f6b8a3230949
linuxlinux>= 782f8906f8057efc7151b4b98b0a0280a71d005f < a371d558e6f3aed977a8a7346350557de5d25190a371d558e6f3aed977a8a7346350557de5d25190
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.10.6-16.10.6-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.10.6-16.10.6-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-50.516.8.0-50.51
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.8 < 6.10.56.10.5

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu5.5MEDIUM
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