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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-57874

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/11/2025 10:15:07 AM

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Added Description

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

arm64: ptrace: fix partial SETREGSET for NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL

Currently tagged_addr_ctrl_set() doesn't initialize the temporary 'ctrl'
variable, and a SETREGSET call with a length of zero will leave this
uninitialized. Consequently tagged_addr_ctrl_set() will consume an
arbitrary value, potentially leaking up to 64 bits of memory from the
kernel stack. The read is limited to a specific slot on the stack, and
the issue does not provide a write mechanism.

As set_tagged_addr_ctrl() only accepts values where bits [63:4] zero and
rejects other values, a partial SETREGSET attempt will randomly succeed
or fail depending on the value of the uninitialized value, and the
exposure is significantly limited.

Fix this by initializing the temporary value before copying the regset
from userspace, as for other regsets (e.g. NT_PRSTATUS, NT_PRFPREG,
NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL). In the case of a zero-length write, the existing
value of the tagged address ctrl will be retained.

The NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL regset is only visible in the
user_aarch64_view used by a native AArch64 task to manipulate another
native AArch64 task. As get_tagged_addr_ctrl() only returns an error
value when called for a compat task, tagged_addr_ctrl_get() and
tagged_addr_ctrl_set() should never observe an error value from
get_tagged_addr_ctrl(). Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to both to indicate that
such an error would be unexpected, and error handlnig is not missing in
either case.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1152dd13845efde5554f80c7e1233bae1d26bd3e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1370cf3eb5495d70e00547598583a4cd45b40b99
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c176f5155ee6161fee6f416b64aa50394d3f220
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96035c0093db258975b8887676afe59a64c34a72
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abd614bbfcee73247495bd9472da8f85ac83546e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca62d90085f4af36de745883faab9f8a7cbb45d3