In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic
Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes".
Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfd_pin_folios with hugetlb
pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet
faulted in when memfd_pin_folios is called. The THP bug bites when the
starting offset passed to memfd_pin_folios is not huge page aligned. See
the commit messages for details.
This patch (of 5):
memfd_pin_folios on memory backed by THP panics if the requested start
offset is not huge page aligned:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000036
RIP: 0010:filemap_get_folios_contig+0xdf/0x290
RSP: 0018:ffffc9002092fbe8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000002
The fault occurs here, because xas_load returns a folio with value 2:
filemap_get_folios_contig()
for (folio = xas_load(&xas); folio && xas.xa_index <= end;
folio = xas_next(&xas)) {
...
if (!folio_try_get(folio)) <-- BOOM
"2" is an xarray sibling entry. We get it because memfd_pin_folios does
not round the indices passed to filemap_get_folios_contig to huge page
boundaries for THP, so we load from the middle of a huge page range see a
sibling. (It does round for hugetlbfs, at the is_file_hugepages test).
To fix, if the folio is a sibling, then return the next index as the
starting point for the next call to filemap_get_folios_contig.
References
Configurations
History
24 Oct 2024, 20:22
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First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
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CWE | CWE-476 | |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/570dd14bfecf281fa467c80f8ec92b26370ee36a - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c225c4f6056b46a8a5bf2ed35abf17a2d6887691 - Patch | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
23 Oct 2024, 15:13
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Summary |
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21 Oct 2024, 18:15
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2024-10-21 18:15
Updated : 2024-10-24 20:22
NVD link : CVE-2024-49873
Mitre link : CVE-2024-49873
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-49873
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference