CVE-2024-36881

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.19.6-6.6.30, 6.7.0-6.8.9 - Memory Corruption via Userfaultfd Close Race

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIO_UNREGISTER ioctl, not a close() on the userfaultfd itself. Cover that too. This fixes a WARN trace. The only user visible side effect is the user can observe leftover wr-protect bits even if the user close()ed on an userfaultfd when releasing the last reference of it. However hopefully that should be harmless, and nothing bad should happen even if so. This change is now more important after the recent page-table-check patch we merged in mm-unstable (446dd9ad37d0 ("mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries")), as we'll do sanity check on uffd-wp bits without vma context. So it's better if we can 100% guarantee no uffd-wp bit leftovers, to make sure each report will be valid.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
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 (14)
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 3e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587d
Linux/Linux 5.19.6 - 5.20
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.6.31 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.8.10 - 6.8.*
Linux/Linux 6.9
Linux/Linux f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f - 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931
... and 4 more
Published May 30, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026