CVE-2024-44943

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. This issue involved improperly using the trygrabfolio function in the memory management subsystem and led to failures and kernel warnings during memory pinning in the Contiguous Memory Allocator CMA area, especially when starting SEV virtual machines...

SUSE CVE-2024-44943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313...

CVE-2024-44943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313...

CVE-2024-44943 mm: gup: stop abusing try_grab_folio

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313...

CVE-2024-44943: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313...

SUSE CVE-2024-42293

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when 16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being folded at runtime due...

CVE-2024-42293

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when 16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being folded at runtime due...

CVE-2024-42293: Out-of-bounds Read

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when 16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being folded at runtime due...

CVE-2021-47463

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix NULL page-mapping dereference in pageissecretmem Check for a NULL page-mapping before dereferencing the mapping in pageissecretmem, as the page's mapping can be nullified while gup is running, e.g. by reclaim or...

CVE-2021-47463

CVE-2021-47463 concerns a Linux kernel NULL pointer dereference in mm/secretmem during GUP operations. The issue arises from dereferencing page->mapping without ensuring it is non-NULL as a page mapping can be nulled while gup() runs (e.g., by reclaim or truncation). A fix was implemented to ...

SUSE CVE-2024-35872

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872

Summary: CVE-2024-35872 affects the Linux kernel mm/secretmem feature. The issue arose because folios for secretmem could be added to batches without the LRU flag, making folio_is_secretmem() unreliable and enabling a local attacker to trigger GUP-fast on secretmem folios. The fix removes the unr...

CVE-2024-35872 mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872 mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

CVE-2024-35872: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folioissecretmem currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or...

The vulnerability in the `follow_page_pte` function of the `mm/gup.c` file in the Linux kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure or gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the followpagepte function in the mm/gup.c file of the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to the race condition. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure or gain unauthorized access to protected information...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...