CVE-2024-58000

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.13-6.13.2 - Speculative Execution via io_uring Register Wait Index

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: prevent reg-wait speculations With *ENTER_EXT_ARG_REG instead of passing a user pointer with arguments for the waiting loop the user can specify an offset into a pre-mapped region of memory, in which case the [offset, offset + sizeof(io_uring_reg_wait)) will be intepreted as the argument. As we address a kernel array using a user given index, it'd be a subject to speculation type of exploits. Use array_index_nospec() to prevent that. Make sure to pass not the full region size but truncate by the maximum offset allowed considering the structure size.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.2linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.13.2 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux aa00f67adc2c0d6439f81b5a81ff181377c47a7e - 29b95ac917927ce9f95bf38797e16333ecb489b1
Linux/Linux aa00f67adc2c0d6439f81b5a81ff181377c47a7e - 2a6de94df7bfa76d9850443547e7b3333f63a16a
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 - 6.13.2
Published Feb 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026