UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38667
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 pt_regs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted. Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(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 smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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 pt_regs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted. Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(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 smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-38667
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7004-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7008-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7029-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7166-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7166-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7166-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7166-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7186-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7186-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7194-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38667