CVE-2024-57945

HIGH

Linux kernel 5.10.212-5.10.x - Out-of-bounds Read in RISC-V vmemmap Address Calculation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: mm: Fix the out of bound issue of vmemmap address In sparse vmemmap model, the virtual address of vmemmap is calculated as: ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT)). And the struct page's va can be calculated with an offset: (vmemmap + (pfn)). However, when initializing struct pages, kernel actually starts from the first page from the same section that phys_ram_base belongs to. If the first page's physical address is not (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT), then we get an va below VMEMMAP_START when calculating va for it's struct page. For example, if phys_ram_base starts from 0x82000000 with pfn 0x82000, the first page in the same section is actually pfn 0x80000. During init_unavailable_range(), we will initialize struct page for pfn 0x80000 with virtual address ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - 0x2000), which is below VMEMMAP_START as well as PCI_IO_END. This commit fixes this bug by introducing a new variable 'vmemmap_start_pfn' which is aligned with memory section size and using it to calculate vmemmap address instead of phys_ram_base.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (24)
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 2a1728c15ec4f45ed9248ae22f626541c179bfbe
Linux/Linux 5.10.212 - 5.10.258
Linux/Linux 5.10.212 - 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.10.258 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.151 - 5.16
Linux/Linux 5941a90c55d3bfba732b32208d58d997600b44ef
Linux/Linux 6.1.140 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.81 - 6.1.140
Linux/Linux 6.12.10 - 6.12.*
... and 14 more
Published Jan 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026