CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
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.
git.kernel.org/linus/a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-38667
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-2
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7004-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-2
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7008-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7029-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38667