CVE-2024-46847

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.6.37-6.6.51 - Out-of-Bounds Access in vmap_block Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: vmalloc: ensure vmap_block is initialised before adding to queue Commit 8c61291fd850 ("mm: fix incorrect vbq reference in purge_fragmented_block") extended the 'vmap_block' structure to contain a 'cpu' field which is set at allocation time to the id of the initialising CPU. When a new 'vmap_block' is being instantiated by new_vmap_block(), the partially initialised structure is added to the local 'vmap_block_queue' xarray before the 'cpu' field has been initialised. If another CPU is concurrently walking the xarray (e.g. via vm_unmap_aliases()), then it may perform an out-of-bounds access to the remote queue thanks to an uninitialised index. This has been observed as UBSAN errors in Android: | Internal error: UBSAN: array index out of bounds: 00000000f2005512 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | | Call trace: | purge_fragmented_block+0x204/0x21c | _vm_unmap_aliases+0x170/0x378 | vm_unmap_aliases+0x1c/0x28 | change_memory_common+0x1dc/0x26c | set_memory_ro+0x18/0x24 | module_enable_ro+0x98/0x238 | do_init_module+0x1b0/0x310 Move the initialisation of 'vb->cpu' in new_vmap_block() ahead of the addition to the xarray.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.0%
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-129
Status published
Products (13)
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.10.10 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.6.37 - 6.6.51
Linux/Linux 6.6.51 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.9.8 - 6.10
Linux/Linux 88e0ad40d08a73a74c597e69f4cd2d1fba3838b5 - 1b2770e27d6d952f491bb362b657e5b2713c3efd
Linux/Linux 8c61291fd8500e3b35c7ec0c781b273d8cc96cde - 3e3de7947c751509027d26b679ecd243bc9db255
Linux/Linux 8c61291fd8500e3b35c7ec0c781b273d8cc96cde - 6cf74e0e5e3ab5d5c9defb4c73dad54d52224671
... and 3 more
Published Sep 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026