CVE-2024-41084 cxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup

What is CVE-2024-41084?

CVE-2024-41084 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Jul 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:

cxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup

cxl_dpa_to_region() looks up a region based on a memdev and DPA. It wrongly assumes an endpoint found mapping the DPA is also of a fully assembled region. When not true it leads to a null pointer dereference looking up the region name.

This appears during testing of region lookup after a failure to assemble a BIOS defined region or if the lookup raced with the assembly of the BIOS defined region.

Failure to clean up BIOS defined regions that fail assembly is an issue in itself and a fix to that problem will alleviate some of the impact. It will not alleviate the race condition so let's harden this path.

The behavior change is that the kernel oops due to a null pointer dereference is replaced with a dev_dbg() message noting that an endpoint was mapped.

Additional comments are added so that future users of this function can more clearly understand what it provides.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41084?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-41084?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-41084 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41084 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-41084, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41084, GHSA-p776-rxgv-h888, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41084.