parisc: Fix random data corruption from exception handler (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-26706
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Fix random data corruption from exception handler The current exception handler implementation, which assists when accessing user space memory, may exhibit random data corruption if the compiler decides to use a different register than the specified register %r29 (defined in ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_REG) for the error code. If the compiler choose another register, the fault handler will nevertheless store -EFAULT into %r29 and thus trash whatever this register is used for. Looking at the assembly I found that this happens sometimes in emulate_ldd(). To solve the issue, the easiest solution would be if it somehow is possible to tell the fault handler which register is used to hold the error code. Using %0 or %1 in the inline assembly is not posssible as it will show up as e.g. %r29 (with the "%r" prefix), which the GNU assembler can not convert to an integer. This patch takes another, better and more flexible approach: We extend the __ex_table (which is out of the execution path) by one 32-word. In this word we tell the compiler to insert the assembler instruction "or %r0,%r0,%reg", where %reg references the register which the compiler choosed for the error return code. In case of an access failure, the fault handler finds the __ex_table entry and can examine the opcode. The used register is encoded in the lowest 5 bits, and the fault handler can then store -EFAULT into this register. Since we extend the __ex_table to 3 words we can't use the BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT config option any longer.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d19f5e41b344a057bb2450024a807476f30978d2 < 23027309b099ffc4efca5477009a11dccbdae592 ; affected d19f5e41b344a057bb2450024a807476f30978d2 < fa69a8063f8b27f3c7434a0d4f464a76a62f24d2 ; affected d19f5e41b344a057bb2450024a807476f30978d2 < ce31d79aa1f13a2345791f84935281a2c194e003 ; affected d19f5e41b344a057bb2450024a807476f30978d2 < 8b1d72395635af45410b66cc4c4ab37a12c4a831 ; affected 09b931fcb87c8aad178475a7db1d4bfc939f7faa ; affected 37e6234297379e0db25e39c2ca99776fea70026c
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.11 ; unaffected 0 < 4.11 ; unaffected 6.1.79 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.18 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.6 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD