CVE-2024-46847

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedSep 27, 2024
First seenSep 27, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.6.51, 6.10, 6.10.10 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel6.6.37 ≤ v < 6.6.51, 6.9.8 ≤ v < 6.10, 6.10 ≤ v < 6.10.10, 6.116.6.51, 6.10, 6.10.10

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