CVE-2023-52619 pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number

2024-03-1810:19:05

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

vulnerability

pstore/ram

crash fix

odd number

cpu cores

zone size

memory alignment

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

JSON

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

pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number

When the number of cpu cores is adjusted to 7 or other odd numbers,
the zone size will become an odd number.
The address of the zone will become:
addr of zone0 = BASE
addr of zone1 = BASE + zone_size
addr of zone2 = BASE + zone_size*2
…
The address of zone1/3/5/7 will be mapped to non-alignment va.
Eventually crashes will occur when accessing these va.

So, use ALIGN_DOWN() to make sure the zone size is even
to avoid this bug.

CNA Affected

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