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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-45022

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 9/11/2024 12:15:07 PM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0

The __vmap_pages_range_noflush() assumes its argument pages** contains
pages with the same page shift.  However, since commit e9c3cda4d86e ("mm,
vmalloc: fix high order __GFP_NOFAIL allocations"), if gfp_flags includes
__GFP_NOFAIL with high order in vm_area_alloc_pages() and page allocation
failed for high order, the pages** may contain two different page shifts
(high order and order-0).  This could lead __vmap_pages_range_noflush() to
perform incorrect mappings, potentially resulting in memory corruption.

Users might encounter this as follows (vmap_allow_huge = true, 2M is for
PMD_SIZE):

kvmalloc(2M, __GFP_NOFAIL|GFP_X)
    __vmalloc_node_range_noprof(vm_flags=VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)
        vm_area_alloc_pages(order=9) ---> order-9 allocation failed and fallback to order-0
            vmap_pages_range()
                vmap_pages_range_noflush()
                    __vmap_pages_range_noflush(page_shift = 21) ----> wrong mapping happens

We can remove the fallback code because if a high-order allocation fails,
__vmalloc_node_range_noprof() will retry with order-0.  Therefore, it is
unnecessary to fallback to order-0 here.  Therefore, fix this by removing
the fallback code.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ebe5a747da649057c37be1c37eb934b4af79ca [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91618816f4d21fc574d7577a37722adcd4075b2 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de7bad86345c43cd040ed43e20d9fad78a3ee59f [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd1ffbb50ef4da5e1378a46616b6d7407dc795da [No types assigned]