CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38610
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers/virt/acrn: fix PFNMAP PTE checks in acrn_vm_ram_map()
Patch series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes".
Patch #1 fixes a bunch of issues I spotted in the acrn driver. It
compiles, that's all I know. I'll appreciate some review and testing from
acrn folks.
Patch #2+#3 improve follow_pte(), passing a VMA instead of the MM, adding
more sanity checks, and improving the documentation. Gave it a quick test
on x86-64 using VM_PAT that ends up using follow_pte().
This patch (of 3):
We currently miss handling various cases, resulting in a dangerous
follow_pte() (previously follow_pfn()) usage.
(1) We're not checking PTE write permissions.
Maybe we should simply always require pte_write() like we do for
pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_WRITE)? Hard to tell, so let's check for
ACRN_MEM_ACCESS_WRITE for now.
(2) We're not rejecting refcounted pages.
As we are not using MMU notifiers, messing with refcounted pages is
dangerous and can result in use-after-free. Let's make sure to reject them.
(3) We are only looking at the first PTE of a bigger range.
We only lookup a single PTE, but memmap->len may span a larger area.
Let's loop over all involved PTEs and make sure the PFN range is
actually contiguous. Reject everything else: it couldn't have worked
either way, and rather made use access PFNs we shouldn't be accessing.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.33 < 5.15.161)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16.19 < 5.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17.2 < 6.1.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c8d6e24930b8ef7d4a81787627c559ae0e0d3bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6586008f7b638f91f3332602592caa8b00b559 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4ba3cf3a15ccfbaf787d0296fa42cdb00da9b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c6705aa47b5b78d7ad36fea832bb69caa5bf49a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afeb0e69627695f759fc73c39c1640dbf8649b32 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e873f36ec890bece26ecce850e969917bceebbb6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c8d6e24930b8ef7d4a81787627c559ae0e0d3bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6586008f7b638f91f3332602592caa8b00b559 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4ba3cf3a15ccfbaf787d0296fa42cdb00da9b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c6705aa47b5b78d7ad36fea832bb69caa5bf49a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afeb0e69627695f759fc73c39c1640dbf8649b32 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e873f36ec890bece26ecce850e969917bceebbb6 Patch