CVE-2024-40948

2024-07-1213:15:17

Linux

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux kernel

mm/page_table_check

vulnerability

zone_device

pgtable check

crash

fix

cve-2024-40948

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.9%

JSON

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

mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE

Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONE_DEVICE
pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don’t allocate page_ext at all
even if there’s struct page around. One may reference
devm_memremap_pages().

When both ZONE_DEVICE and page-table-check enabled, then try to map some
dax memories, one can trigger kernel bug constantly now when the kernel
was trying to inject some pfn maps on the dax device:

kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:55!

While it’s pretty legal to use set_pxx_at() for ZONE_DEVICE pages for page
fault resolutions, skip all the checks if page_ext doesn’t even exist in
pgtable checker, which applies to ZONE_DEVICE but maybe more.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.17–6.1.96

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.36

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.9.7

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.10.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/page_table_check.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "df4e817b7108",
        "lessThan": "51897f99351f",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "df4e817b7108",
        "lessThan": "84d3549d54f5",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "df4e817b7108",
        "lessThan": "dec238224786",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "df4e817b7108",
        "lessThan": "8bb592c2eca8",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/page_table_check.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.17",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.17",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.1.96",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.36",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9.7",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.9.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]