CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23346
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-19
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: io: Extract user memory type in ioremap_prot()
The only caller of ioremap_prot() outside of the generic ioremap()
implementation is generic_access_phys(), which passes a 'pgprot_t' value
determined from the user mapping of the target 'pfn' being accessed by
the kernel. On arm64, the 'pgprot_t' contains all of the non-address
bits from the pte, including the permission controls, and so we end up
returning a new user mapping from ioremap_prot() which faults when
accessed from the kernel on systems with PAN:
| Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address ffff80008ea89000
| ...
| Call trace:
| __memcpy_fromio+0x80/0xf8
| generic_access_phys+0x20c/0x2b8
| __access_remote_vm+0x46c/0x5b8
| access_remote_vm+0x18/0x30
| environ_read+0x238/0x3e8
| vfs_read+0xe4/0x2b0
| ksys_read+0xcc/0x178
| __arm64_sys_read+0x4c/0x68
Extract only the memory type from the user 'pgprot_t' in ioremap_prot()
and assert that we're being passed a user mapping, to protect us against
any changes in future that may require additional handling. To avoid
falsely flagging users of ioremap(), provide our own ioremap() macro
which simply wraps __ioremap_prot().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.1 < 6.18.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.0
• linux linux kernel 7.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d64dcc0799c2d6921ba027716b7be721eb19fa8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64858b76ec67c5fc40fef8ec1841fecb78c1ebde git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f098037139b294050053123ab2bc0f819d08932 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1ad8fe7f72d73e1617bac79f2ec7a3bedf47e2a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeecafce5afffb4da703666ebefbd4d6e2a5abf6 git.kernel.org