CVE-2024-38610 (GCVE-0-2024-38610)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-19 13:56
Modified
2026-05-23 15:49
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/virt/acrn: fix PFNMAP PTE checks in acrn_vm_ram_map() Patch series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes". Patch #1 fixes a bunch of issues I spotted in the acrn driver. It compiles, that's all I know. I'll appreciate some review and testing from acrn folks. Patch #2+#3 improve follow_pte(), passing a VMA instead of the MM, adding more sanity checks, and improving the documentation. Gave it a quick test on x86-64 using VM_PAT that ends up using follow_pte(). This patch (of 3): We currently miss handling various cases, resulting in a dangerous follow_pte() (previously follow_pfn()) usage. (1) We're not checking PTE write permissions. Maybe we should simply always require pte_write() like we do for pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_WRITE)? Hard to tell, so let's check for ACRN_MEM_ACCESS_WRITE for now. (2) We're not rejecting refcounted pages. As we are not using MMU notifiers, messing with refcounted pages is dangerous and can result in use-after-free. Let's make sure to reject them. (3) We are only looking at the first PTE of a bigger range. We only lookup a single PTE, but memmap->len may span a larger area. Let's loop over all involved PTEs and make sure the PFN range is actually contiguous. Reject everything else: it couldn't have worked either way, and rather made use access PFNs we shouldn't be accessing.
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Linux Linux Version: b9c43aa0b18da5619aac347d54cb67fe30d1f884
Version: 8a6e85f75a83d16a71077e41f2720c691f432002
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Version: 149d5fb7e0124c3763e92edd1fde19417f4d2d09
Version: 02098ac42b7ff055ec72cd083ee1eb0a23481a19
Version: 5.15.33   ≤
Version: 5.16.19   ≤
Version: 5.17.2   ≤
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