CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50279
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 out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing
dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when
shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes
out-of-bounds access.
Reproduce steps:
1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset)
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 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
dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds
access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80)
dmsetup suspend cache
dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup resume cdata
dmsetup resume cache
KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131
(...snip...)
The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at
[ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by:
cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0
(...snip...)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
Fix by making the index post-incremented.
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/3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f 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