mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-36881
MEDIUM 5.5

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/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIO_UNREGISTER ioctl, not a close() on the userfaultfd itself. Cover that too. This fixes a WARN trace. The only user visible side effect is the user can observe leftover wr-protect bits even if the user close()ed on an userfaultfd when releasing the last reference of it. However hopefully that should be harmless, and nothing bad should happen even if so. This change is now more important after the recent page-table-check patch we merged in mm-unstable (446dd9ad37d0 ("mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries")), as we'll do sanity check on uffd-wp bits without vma context. So it's better if we can 100% guarantee no uffd-wp bit leftovers, to make sure each report will be valid.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < 1da0471de653b13c8f63dcd32a23574d683c8310 ; affected f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931 ; affected f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < 8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29d ; affected f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734 ; affected 3e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587d ; affected 5.19.6 < 5.20
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.31 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.8.10 ≤ 6.8.* ; unaffected 6.9 ≤ *

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