CVE-2024-35797

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.5-6.6.23, 6.7-6.7.11, 6.8-6.8.2 - Out-of-bounds Write in Shmem Swap Entry Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs: 1) A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the shmem inode's xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[]. Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further. 2) When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in progress and we're before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation, or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the shmem swap entry. This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently evicted" count. Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case. Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0065
EPSS Percentile 46.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 6.5.0 - 6.6.24linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.8.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.6.24 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7.12 - 6.7.*
Linux/Linux 6.8.3 - 6.8.*
Linux/Linux 6.9
Linux/Linux cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - 24a0e73d544439bb9329fbbafac44299e548a677
... and 5 more
Published May 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026