CVE-2024-42293

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.9-6.10.2 - Out-of-bounds Read in Page-Table Folding

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when 16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being folded at runtime due to lack of LPA2. In this configuration, the generic implementation of p4d_offset_lockless() will return a 'p4d_t *' corresponding to the 'pgd_t' allocated on the stack of the caller, gup_fast_pgd_range(). This is normally fine, but when the fourth level of page-table is folded at runtime, pud_offset_lockless() will offset from the address of the 'p4d_t' to calculate the address of the PUD in the same page-table page. This results in a stray stack read when the 'p4d_t' has been allocated on the stack and can send the walker into the weeds. Fix the problem by providing our own definition of p4d_offset_lockless() when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS <= 4 which returns the real page-table pointer rather than the address of the local stack variable.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.2%
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-125
Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 6.9.0 - 6.10.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.9
Linux/Linux 0dd4f60a2c76938c2625f6c630c225699d97608b - 36639013b3462c06ff8e3400a427f775b4fc97f5
Linux/Linux 0dd4f60a2c76938c2625f6c630c225699d97608b - 78672d49d3eebbcda3589f4d6e589caf357c5a59
Linux/Linux 6.10.3 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.9
linux/linux_kernel 6.9 - 6.10.3
Published Aug 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026