CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-26710
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB
KASAN is seen to increase stack usage, to the point that it was reported
to lead to stack overflow on some 32-bit machines (see link).
To avoid overflows the stack size was doubled for KASAN builds in
commit 3e8635fb2e07 ("powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with
KASAN").
However with a 32KB stack size to begin with, the doubling leads to a
64KB stack, which causes build errors:
arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S:249: Error: operand out of range (0x000000000000fe50 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007fff)
Although the asm could be reworked, in practice a 32KB stack seems
sufficient even for KASAN builds - the additional usage seems to be in
the 2-3KB range for a 64-bit KASAN build.
So only increase the stack for KASAN if the stack size is < 32KB.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.75 < 6.1.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.14 < 6.6.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7.2 < 6.7.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cc31fa07445879a13750cb061bb8c2654975fcb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b29b16bd836a838b7690f80e37f8376414c74cbe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1acb109505d983779bbb7e20a1ee6244d2b5736 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9a4c401bf4c5af3437ad221c0a5880a518068d4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4297217bcf1f0948a19c2bacc6b68d92e7778ad9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cc31fa07445879a13750cb061bb8c2654975fcb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b29b16bd836a838b7690f80e37f8376414c74cbe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1acb109505d983779bbb7e20a1ee6244d2b5736 Patch