openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscall (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89489
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscall sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly. l.lwz r29,0(r4) l.lwz r27,0(r5) l.sw 0(r4),r27 l.sw 0(r5),r29 The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries. A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly. This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context. Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT. [shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style]

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)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < bf310718c6fa6adeee06d207a55489546d860e2c ; affected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < 497cba0b02e5555d99fe9ee1dc478af743ab7f7a ; affected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < 1f2e92e499d863f81df1732af59b4a3559969193 ; affected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < 574ae2ac2b314aa33498cd2c28add106cbe644f2 ; affected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < a520e8cac54fb403f3800125b606f55fcad42cb9 ; affected 9d02a4283e9ce4e9ca11ff00615bdacdb0515a1a < d64a75369cd0f2ee79afcc9d9ca34a3890989379
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.1 ; unaffected 0 < 3.1 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

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
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