CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38667

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-06-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-06-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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-787

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted. Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early"). However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 6.1.93) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.4) • linux linux kernel 6.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References