Revert "riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for __access_ok()" (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38434
HIGH 7.8

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.20 % · centile 10 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for __access_ok()" This reverts commit ad5643cf2f69 ("riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for __access_ok()"). This commit changes TASK_SIZE_MAX to be LONG_MAX to optimize access_ok(), because the previous TASK_SIZE_MAX (default to TASK_SIZE) requires some computation. The reasoning was that all user addresses are less than LONG_MAX, and all kernel addresses are greater than LONG_MAX. Therefore access_ok() can filter kernel addresses. Addresses between TASK_SIZE and LONG_MAX are not valid user addresses, but access_ok() let them pass. That was thought to be okay, because they are not valid addresses at hardware level. Unfortunately, one case is missed: get_user_pages_fast() happily accepts addresses between TASK_SIZE and LONG_MAX. futex(), for instance, uses get_user_pages_fast(). This causes the problem reported by Robert [1]. Therefore, revert this commit. TASK_SIZE_MAX is changed to the default: TASK_SIZE. This unfortunately reduces performance, because TASK_SIZE is more expensive to compute compared to LONG_MAX. But correctness first, we can think about optimization later, if required.

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Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
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)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ad5643cf2f699989daa85d909403febd6712fccb < fe30c30bf3bb68d4a4d8c7c814769857b5c973e6 ; affected ad5643cf2f699989daa85d909403febd6712fccb < f8b1898748dfeb4f9b67b6a6d661f354b9de3523 ; affected ad5643cf2f699989daa85d909403febd6712fccb < 890ba5be6335dbbbc99af14ea007befb5f83f174
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.12.36 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.5 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16 ≤ *

Sources

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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