CVE-2024-35872

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is unreliable for this purpose. In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain(). Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio has been unmapped from the directmap. Fix it by removing that unreliable check.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 19, 2024
First seenMay 19, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.15.154, 6.1.85, 6.6.26, 6.8.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.14 ≤ v < 5.15.154, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.85, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.26, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.8.5, 6.95.15.154, 6.1.85, 6.6.26, 6.8.5

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