CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-57945
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: mm: Fix the out of bound issue of vmemmap address
In sparse vmemmap model, the virtual address of vmemmap is calculated as:
((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT)).
And the struct page's va can be calculated with an offset:
(vmemmap + (pfn)).
However, when initializing struct pages, kernel actually starts from the
first page from the same section that phys_ram_base belongs to. If the
first page's physical address is not (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT), then
we get an va below VMEMMAP_START when calculating va for it's struct page.
For example, if phys_ram_base starts from 0x82000000 with pfn 0x82000, the
first page in the same section is actually pfn 0x80000. During
init_unavailable_range(), we will initialize struct page for pfn 0x80000
with virtual address ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - 0x2000), which is
below VMEMMAP_START as well as PCI_IO_END.
This commit fixes this bug by introducing a new variable
'vmemmap_start_pfn' which is aligned with memory section size and using
it to calculate vmemmap address instead of phys_ram_base.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.212 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.151 < 5.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.81 < 6.1.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.21 < 6.6.72)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7.9 < 6.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8.1 < 6.12.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.8
• linux linux kernel 6.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04350304428063da6a55a8a4597d409dc69148b2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92f08673d3f1893191323572f60e3c62f2e57c2f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4a7ac3d266008018f05fae53060fcb331151a14 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2bd51954ac8377c2f1eb1813e694788998add66 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f754f27e98f88428aaf6be6e00f5cbce97f62d4b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html lists.debian.org