CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50278
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume
Out-of-bounds access occurs if the fast device is expanded unexpectedly
before the first-time resume of the cache table. This happens because
expanding the fast device requires reloading the cache table for
cache_create to allocate new in-core data structures that fit the new
size, and the check in cache_preresume is not performed during the
first resume, leading to the issue.
Reproduce steps:
1. prepare component devices:
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
2. load a cache table of 512 cache blocks, and deliberately expand the
fast device before resuming the cache, making the in-core data
structures inadequate.
dmsetup create cache --notable
dmsetup reload cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup resume cdata
dmsetup resume cache
3. suspend the cache to write out the in-core dirty bitset and hint
array, leading to out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset at offset
0x40:
dmsetup suspend cache
KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in is_dirty_callback+0x2b/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000085040 by task dmsetup/90
(...snip...)
The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at
[ffffc90000085000, ffffc90000087000) created by:
cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0
(...snip...)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffc90000084f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90000084f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
>ffffc90000085000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffffc90000085080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90000085100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
Fix by checking the size change on the first resume.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 4.19.324)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.286)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.230)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.172)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.117)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/036dd6e3d2638103e0092864577ea1d091466b86 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ed3624c6ef283acefa4cc42cc8ae54fd4391a4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2222b0929d00e2d13732b799b63be391b5de4492 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/483b7261b35a9d369082ab298a6670912243f0be Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0ade5d98979585d4f5a93e4514c2e9a65afa08d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c52ec00cb2f9bebfada22edcc0db385b910a1cdb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e492f71854ce03474d49e87fd98b8df1f7cd1d2d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdef3b94dfebd57e3077a578b6e309a2bb6fa688 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