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CVE-2024-38667

riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

Severity Score

7.8
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Track
*SSVC
Descriptions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However
this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts.
Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted.

Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28
("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early").
However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem
has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function
smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs
structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save
or restore inexistent V context.

En el kernel de Linux, se resolvió la siguiente vulnerabilidad: riscv: evita la corrupción de pt_regs para subprocesos inactivos secundarios La parte superior de la pila de subprocesos del kernel debe reservarse para pt_regs. Sin embargo, este no es el caso de los subprocesos inactivos de los corazones de arranque secundarios. Sus pilas se superponen con sus pt_regs, por lo que ambos pueden corromperse. Se ha solucionado un problema similar para el corazón principal; consulte c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: evite la corrupción de la pila reservando task_pt_regs(p) anticipadamente"). Sin embargo, esa solución no se propagó a los corazones secundarios. El problema se ha observado en algunas pruebas de conexión en caliente de CPU con V habilitado. La función smp_callin almacenó varios registros en la pila, corrompiendo la parte superior de la estructura pt_regs, incluido el campo de estado. Como resultado, el kernel intentó guardar o restaurar el contexto V inexistente.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Track
Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Tech. Impact
Partial
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2024-06-21 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-06-24 CVE Published
  • 2024-06-27 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-09-11 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.7 < 6.1.93
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.7 < 6.6.33
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.7 < 6.9.4
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.7 < 6.10
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