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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 18, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 22, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

codetag: debug: mark codetags for poisoned page as empty

When PG_hwpoison pages are freed they are treated differently in
free_pages_prepare() and instead of being released they are isolated.

Page allocation tag counters are decremented at this point since the page
is considered not in use. Later on when such pages are released by
unpoison_memory(), the allocation tag counters will be decremented again
and the following warning gets reported:

[ 113.930443][ T3282] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 113.931105][ T3282] alloc_tag was not set
[ 113.931576][ T3282] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3282 at ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:130 pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.932866][ T3282] Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject fuse ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute ip6table_nat ip6table_man4
[ 113.941638][ T3282] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3282 Comm: madvise11 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.11.0-rc4-dirty #18
[ 113.943003][ T3282] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 113.943453][ T3282] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 113.944378][ T3282] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 113.945319][ T3282] pc : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.946016][ T3282] lr : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.946706][ T3282] sp : ffff800087093a10
[ 113.947197][ T3282] x29: ffff800087093a10 x28: ffff0000d7a9d400 x27: ffff80008249f0a0
[ 113.948165][ T3282] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff80008249f2b0 x24: 0000000000000000
[ 113.949134][ T3282] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: 0000000000000000
[ 113.950597][ T3282] x20: ffff0000c08fcad8 x19: ffff80008251e000 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 113.952207][ T3282] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff800081746210
[ 113.953161][ T3282] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d323832335420 x12: 5b5d353031313339
[ 113.954120][ T3282] x11: ffff800087093500 x10: 000000000000005d x9 : 00000000ffffffd0
[ 113.955078][ T3282] x8 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x7 : ffff80008236ba90 x6 : c0000000ffff7fff
[ 113.956036][ T3282] x5 : ffff000b34bf4dc8 x4 : ffff8000820aba90 x3 : 0000000000000001
[ 113.956994][ T3282] x2 : ffff800ab320f000 x1 : 841d1e35ac932e00 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 113.957962][ T3282] Call trace:
[ 113.958350][ T3282] pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.959000][ T3282] pgalloc_tag_sub+0x14/0x1c
[ 113.959539][ T3282] free_unref_page+0xf4/0x4b8
[ 113.960096][ T3282] __folio_put+0xd4/0x120
[ 113.960614][ T3282] folio_put+0x24/0x50
[ 113.961103][ T3282] unpoison_memory+0x4f0/0x5b0
[ 113.961678][ T3282] hwpoison_unpoison+0x30/0x48 [hwpoison_inject]
[ 113.962436][ T3282] simple_attr_write_xsigned.isra.34+0xec/0x1cc
[ 113.963183][ T3282] simple_attr_write+0x38/0x48
[ 113.963750][ T3282] debugfs_attr_write+0x54/0x80
[ 113.964330][ T3282] full_proxy_write+0x68/0x98
[ 113.964880][ T3282] vfs_write+0xdc/0x4d0
[ 113.965372][ T3282] ksys_write+0x78/0x100
[ 113.965875][ T3282] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
[ 113.966440][ T3282] invoke_syscall+0x7c/0x104
[ 113.966984][ T3282] el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x88/0x104
[ 113.967652][ T3282] do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x38
[ 113.968893][ T3282] el0_svc+0x3c/0x1b8
[ 113.969379][ T3282] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x98/0xbc
[ 113.969980][ T3282] el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
[ 113.970511][ T3282] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To fix this, clear the page tag reference after the page got isolated
and accounted for.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 18, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 18, 2024
Last updated Nov 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(12th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-46790

GHSA ID

GHSA-38r2-f5rc-fgw9

Source code

No known source code

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