mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-35872
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() 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 temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is unreliable for this purpose. In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain(). Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio has been unmapped from the directmap. Fix it by removing that unreliable check.

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 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 6564b014af92b677c1f07c44d7f5b595d589cf6e ; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 9c2b4b657739ecda38e3b383354a29566955ac48 ; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 43fad1d0284de30159661d0badfc3cbaf7e6f8f8 ; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 201e4aaf405dfd1308da54448654053004c579b5 ; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 < 65291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf7706
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.14 ; unaffected 0 < 5.14 ; unaffected 5.15.154 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.85 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.26 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.8.5 ≤ 6.8.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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