CVE-2024-40917

memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used. No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff] was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to access node 64's (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data. To compensate said change, make memblock_set_node() warn on and adjust a passed in value of MAX_NUMNODES, just like various other functions already do.

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:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 6fdc770506eb8379bf68a49d4e193c8364ac64e0 < 4ddb7f966f3d06fcf1ba5ee298af6714b593584b ; affected ff6c3d81f2e86b63a3a530683f89ef393882782a < 22f742b8f738918f683198a18ec3c691acda14c4 ; affected ff6c3d81f2e86b63a3a530683f89ef393882782a < e0eec24e2e199873f43df99ec39773ad3af2bff7 ; affected 6.6.70 < 6.6.72
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.6.72 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.9.6 ≤ 6.9.* ; unaffected 6.10 ≤ *

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