In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers/virt/acrn: fix PFNMAP PTE checks in acrn_vm_ram_map()
Patch series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes".
Patch #1 fixes a bunch of issues I spotted in the acrn driver. It
compiles, that's all I know. I'll appreciate some review and testing from
acrn folks.
Patch #2+#3 improve follow_pte(), passing a VMA instead of the MM, adding
more sanity checks, and improving the documentation. Gave it a quick test
on x86-64 using VM_PAT that ends up using follow_pte().
This patch (of 3):
We currently miss handling various cases, resulting in a dangerous
follow_pte() (previously follow_pfn()) usage.
(1) We're not checking PTE write permissions.
Maybe we should simply always require pte_write() like we do for
pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_WRITE)? Hard to tell, so let's check for
ACRN_MEM_ACCESS_WRITE for now.
(2) We're not rejecting refcounted pages.
As we are not using MMU notifiers, messing with refcounted pages is
dangerous and can result in use-after-free. Let's make sure to reject them.
(3) We are only looking at the first PTE of a bigger range.
We only lookup a single PTE, but memmap->len may span a larger area.
Let's loop over all involved PTEs and make sure the PFN range is
actually contiguous. Reject everything else: it couldn't have worked
either way, and rather made use access PFNs we shouldn't be accessing.
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CWE | CWE-416 | |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.8 |
First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
21 Nov 2024, 09:26
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2024-06-19 14:15
Updated : 2025-09-17 17:05
NVD link : CVE-2024-38610
Mitre link : CVE-2024-38610
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-38610
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-416
Use After Free