CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-39497
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- 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-617
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/shmem-helper: Fix BUG_ON() on mmap(PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE)
Lack of check for copy-on-write (COW) mapping in drm_gem_shmem_mmap
allows users to call mmap with PROT_WRITE and MAP_PRIVATE flag
causing a kernel panic due to BUG_ON in vmf_insert_pfn_prot:
BUG_ON((vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) && is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags));
Return -EINVAL early if COW mapping is detected.
This bug affects all drm drivers using default shmem helpers.
It can be reproduced by this simple example:
void *ptr = mmap(0, size, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, mmap_offset);
ptr[0] = 0;
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.2 < 5.10.229)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.169)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.114)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c71c42809ef4b17f5d874cdb2d3bf40e847b86 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4a8b89bf6787090b56424d269bf84ba00c3263 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2219e5f97244b79c276751a1167615b9714db1b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39bc27bd688066a63e56f7f64ad34fae03fbe3b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae63a8c1685e16958560ec08d30defdc5b9cca0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a508a102edf8735adc9bb73d37dd13c38d1a1b10 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c71c42809ef4b17f5d874cdb2d3bf40e847b86 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4a8b89bf6787090b56424d269bf84ba00c3263 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39bc27bd688066a63e56f7f64ad34fae03fbe3b8 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org