CVE-2024-35797

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35797
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-35797
Related
Published
2024-05-17T14:15:11Z
Modified
2024-11-12T18:45:22.621221Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs

When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs:

1) A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the shmem inode's xarray. Calling getshadowfromswapcache() on it will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[].

Validate the entry with nonswapentry() before going further.

2) When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in progress and we're before _removemapping; swapin, invalidation, or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the shmem swap entry.

This will send a NULL to workingsettestrecent(). The latter purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently evicted" count.

Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case.

Bail on getshadowfromswapcache() returning NULL.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.7.12-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1
6.1.90-1
6.1.94-1~bpo11+1
6.1.94-1
6.1.98-1
6.1.99-1
6.1.106-1
6.1.106-2
6.1.106-3
6.1.112-1
6.1.115-1
6.3.1-1~exp1
6.3.2-1~exp1
6.3.4-1~exp1
6.3.5-1~exp1
6.3.7-1~bpo12+1
6.3.7-1
6.3.11-1
6.4~rc6-1~exp1
6.4~rc7-1~exp1
6.4.1-1~exp1
6.4.4-1~bpo12+1
6.4.4-1
6.4.4-2
6.4.4-3~bpo12+1
6.4.4-3
6.4.11-1
6.4.13-1
6.5~rc4-1~exp1
6.5~rc6-1~exp1
6.5~rc7-1~exp1
6.5.1-1~exp1
6.5.3-1~bpo12+1
6.5.3-1
6.5.6-1
6.5.8-1
6.5.10-1~bpo12+1
6.5.10-1
6.5.13-1
6.6.3-1~exp1
6.6.4-1~exp1
6.6.7-1~exp1
6.6.8-1
6.6.9-1
6.6.11-1
6.6.13-1~bpo12+1
6.6.13-1
6.6.15-1
6.6.15-2
6.7-1~exp1
6.7.1-1~exp1
6.7.4-1~exp1
6.7.7-1
6.7.9-1
6.7.9-2
6.7.12-1~bpo12+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}