CVE-2024-26906

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26906
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-26906.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-26906
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-04-17T10:27:53Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:45Z
Summary
x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()
Details

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

x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()

When trying to use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read vsyscall page through a bpf program, the following oops was reported:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff600000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 3231067 P4D 3231067 PUD 3233067 PMD 3235067 PTE 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 20390 Comm: test_progs ...... 6.7.0+ #58 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ...... RIP: 0010:copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110 ...... Call Trace: ? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110 bpf_probe_read_kernel+0x1d/0x50 bpf_prog_2061065e56845f08_do_probe_read+0x51/0x8d trace_call_bpf+0xc5/0x1c0 perf_call_bpf_enter.isra.0+0x69/0xb0 perf_syscall_enter+0x13e/0x200 syscall_trace_enter+0x188/0x1c0 do_syscall_64+0xb5/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ...... ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The oops is triggered when:

  1. A bpf program uses bpf_probe_read_kernel() to read from the vsyscall page and invokes copy_from_kernel_nofault() which in turn calls __get_user_asm().

  2. Because the vsyscall page address is not readable from kernel space, a page fault exception is triggered accordingly.

  3. handle_page_fault() considers the vsyscall page address as a user space address instead of a kernel space address. This results in the fix-up setup by bpf not being applied and a page_fault_oops() is invoked due to SMAP.

Considering handle_page_fault() has already considered the vsyscall page address as a userspace address, fix the problem by disallowing vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault().

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/26xxx/CVE-2024-26906.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4
Fixed
6e4694e65b6db4c3de125115dd4f55848cc48381
Fixed
e8a67fe34b76a49320b33032228a794f40b0316b
Fixed
f175de546a3eb77614d94d4c02550181c0a8493e
Fixed
57f78c46f08198e1be08ffe99c4c1ccc12855bf5
Fixed
29bd6f86904682adafe9affbc7f79b14defcaff8
Fixed
32019c659ecfe1d92e3bf9fcdfbb11a7c70acd58

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-26906.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.214
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.153
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.83
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.23
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.7.11

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-26906.json"