CVE-2024-35872

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14-5.15.153, 5.16-6.1.84, 6.2-6.6.25, 6.7-6.8.4 - Denial of Service via GUP-fast on Secretmem Folios

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is unreliable for this purpose. In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain(). Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio has been unmapped from the directmap. Fix it by removing that unreliable check.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.3%
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

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 5.15.154linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.85linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.26linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 - 201e4aaf405dfd1308da54448654053004c579b5
Linux/Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 - 43fad1d0284de30159661d0badfc3cbaf7e6f8f8
Linux/Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 - 65291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf7706
Linux/Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 - 6564b014af92b677c1f07c44d7f5b595d589cf6e
Linux/Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 - 9c2b4b657739ecda38e3b383354a29566955ac48
... and 8 more
Published May 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026