CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38667
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c1f28c32a194303da630fca89481334b9547b80 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3090c06d50eaa91317f84bf3eac4c265e6cb8d44 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea22d4195cca13d5fdbc4d6555a2dfb8a7867a9e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c1f28c32a194303da630fca89481334b9547b80 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3090c06d50eaa91317f84bf3eac4c265e6cb8d44 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea22d4195cca13d5fdbc4d6555a2dfb8a7867a9e Patch