CVE-2024-56617

Published: Dic 27, 2024 Last Modified: Ott 01, 2025 EU-VD ID: EUVD-2024-53265
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MEDIUM 5,5
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: local
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high

Description

AI Translation Available

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

cacheinfo: Allocate memory during CPU hotplug if not done from the primary CPU

Commit

5944ce092b97 ('arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU')

adds functionality that architectures can use to optionally allocate and
build cacheinfo early during boot. Commit

6539cffa9495 ('cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer')

lets secondary CPUs correct (and reallocate memory) cacheinfo data if
needed.

If the early build functionality is not used and cacheinfo does not need
correction, memory for cacheinfo is never allocated. x86 does not use
the early build functionality. Consequently, during the cacheinfo CPU
hotplug callback, last_level_cache_is_valid() attempts to dereference
a NULL pointer:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000100
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEPMT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID 19 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc2 #1
RIP: 0010: last_level_cache_is_valid+0x95/0xe0a

Allocate memory for cacheinfo during the cacheinfo CPU hotplug callback
if not done earlier.

Moreover, before determining the validity of the last-level cache info,
ensure that it has been allocated. Simply checking for non-zero
cache_leaves() is not sufficient, as some architectures (e.g., Intel
processors) have non-zero cache_leaves() before allocation.

Dereferencing NULL cacheinfo can occur in update_per_cpu_data_slice_size().
This function iterates over all online CPUs. However, a CPU may have come
online recently, but its cacheinfo may not have been allocated yet.

While here, remove an unnecessary indentation in allocate_cache_info().

[ bp: Massage. ]

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System)

Trend Analysis

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System)

Prevede la probabilità di sfruttamento basata su intelligence sulle minacce e sulle caratteristiche della vulnerabilità.

EPSS Score
0,0003
Percentile
0,1th
Updated

EPSS Score Trend (Last 90 Days)

476

NULL Pointer Dereference

Stable
Abstraction: Base Structure: Simple
Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability Integrity Confidentiality
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart Execute Unauthorized Code Or Commands Read Memory Modify Memory
Applicable Platforms
Languages: C, C#, C++, Go, Java
Likelihood of Exploit: Medium
View CWE Details
Operating System

Linux Kernel by Linux

Product Information
Vendor Linux
Product Linux Kernel
Version Range Affected
From 6.4 (inclusive)
To 6.6.66 (exclusive)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Common Platform Enumeration - Standardized vulnerability identification
Operating System

Linux Kernel by Linux

Product Information
Vendor Linux
Product Linux Kernel
Version 6.13
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Common Platform Enumeration - Standardized vulnerability identification
Operating System

Linux Kernel by Linux

Product Information
Vendor Linux
Product Linux Kernel
Version Range Affected
From 6.7 (inclusive)
To 6.12.5 (exclusive)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Common Platform Enumeration - Standardized vulnerability identification
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23b5908b11b77ff8d7b8f7b8f11…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23b5908b11b77ff8d7b8f7b8f11cbab2e1f4bfc2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95e197354e0de07e9a20819bdae…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95e197354e0de07e9a20819bdae6562e4dda0f20
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3fce429a1e030b50c1c91351d6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3fce429a1e030b50c1c91351d69b8667eef627b