CVE-2024-36018 nouveau/uvmm: fix addr/range calcs for remap operations

What is CVE-2024-36018?

CVE-2024-36018 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

nouveau/uvmm: fix addr/range calcs for remap operations

dEQP-VK.sparse_resources.image_rebind.2d_array.r64i.128_128_8 was causing a remap operation like the below.

op_remap: prev: 0000003fffed0000 00000000000f0000 00000000a5abd18a 0000000000000000 op_remap: next: op_remap: unmap: 0000003fffed0000 0000000000100000 0 op_map: map: 0000003ffffc0000 0000000000010000 000000005b1ba33c 00000000000e0000

This was resulting in an unmap operation from 0x3fffed0000+0xf0000, 0x100000 which was corrupting the pagetables and oopsing the kernel.

Fixes the prev + unmap range calcs to use start/end and map back to addr/range.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36018?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-36018?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-36018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-36018, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36018, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36018.