Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-42901.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-42901
Upstream
Published
2024-06-24T14:15:12Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:14:53.851736Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2024-38667 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.35.1-4
Details

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

riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for ptregs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their ptregs, so both may get corrupted.

Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving taskptregs(p) early"). However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function smpcallin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of ptregs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.6.35.1-4

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-42901.json"