CVE-2024-49886 platform/x86: ISST: Fix the KASAN report slab-out-of-bounds bug
A slab-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel ISST driver can cause a system crash when attaching an SST PCI device to a virtual machine.
- Exploited in the wild
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- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
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What is CVE-2024-49886?
CVE-2024-49886 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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:
platform/x86: ISST: Fix the KASAN report slab-out-of-bounds bug
Attaching SST PCI device to VM causes "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds". kasan report: [ 19.411889] ================================================================== [ 19.413702] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _isst_if_get_pci_dev+0x3d5/0x400 [isst_if_common] [ 19.415634] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888829e65200 by task cpuhp/16/113 [ 19.417368] [ 19.418627] CPU: 16 PID: 113 Comm: cpuhp/16 Tainted: G E 6.9.0 #10 [ 19.420435] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware20,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS VMW201.00V.20192059.B64.2207280713 07/28/2022 [ 19.422687] Call Trace: [ 19.424091] <TASK> [ 19.425448] dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 [ 19.426963] ? _isst_if_get_pci_dev+0x3d5/0x400 [isst_if_common] [ 19.428694] print_report+0x19d/0x52e [ 19.430206] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 [ 19.431837] ? _isst_if_get_pci_dev+0x3d5/0x400 [isst_if_common] [ 19.433539] kasan_report+0xf0/0x170 [ 19.435019] ? _isst_if_get_pci_dev+0x3d5/0x400 [isst_if_common] [ 19.436709] _isst_if_get_pci_dev+0x3d5/0x400 [isst_if_common] [ 19.438379] ? __pfx_sched_clock_cpu+0x10/0x10 [ 19.439910] isst_if_cpu_online+0x406/0x58f [isst_if_common] [ 19.441573] ? __pfx_isst_if_cpu_online+0x10/0x10 [isst_if_common] [ 19.443263] ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0x2c1/0x360 [ 19.444797] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x221/0xec0 [ 19.446337] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x21b/0x610 [ 19.447814] ? __pfx_cpuhp_thread_fun+0x10/0x10 [ 19.449354] smpboot_thread_fn+0x2e7/0x6e0 [ 19.450859] ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10 [ 19.452405] kthread+0x29c/0x350 [ 19.453817] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 19.455253] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 [ 19.456685] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 19.458114] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 19.459573] </TASK> [ 19.460853] [ 19.462055] Allocated by task 1198: [ 19.463410] kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 [ 19.464788] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 [ 19.466139] __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 [ 19.467465] __kmalloc+0x1cd/0x470 [ 19.468748] isst_if_cdev_register+0x1da/0x350 [isst_if_common] [ 19.470233] isst_if_mbox_init+0x108/0xff0 [isst_if_mbox_msr] [ 19.471670] do_one_initcall+0xa4/0x380 [ 19.472903] do_init_module+0x238/0x760 [ 19.474105] load_module+0x5239/0x6f00 [ 19.475285] init_module_from_file+0xd1/0x130 [ 19.476506] idempotent_init_module+0x23b/0x650 [ 19.477725] __x64_sys_finit_module+0xbe/0x130 [ 19.476506] idempotent_init_module+0x23b/0x650 [ 19.477725] __x64_sys_finit_module+0xbe/0x130 [ 19.478920] do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 [ 19.480036] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 19.481292] [ 19.482205] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888829e65000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512 [ 19.484818] The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 512-byte region [ffff888829e65000, ffff888829e65200) [ 19.487447] [ 19.488328] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [ 19.489569] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888829e60c00 pfn:0x829e60 [ 19.491140] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 [ 19.492466] anon flags: 0x57ffffc0000840(slab|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [ 19.493914] page_type: 0xffffffff() [ 19.494988] raw: 0057ffffc0000840 ffff88810004cc80 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [ 19.496451] raw: ffff888829e60c00 0000000080200018 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 19.497906] head: 0057ffffc0000840 ffff88810004cc80 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [ 19.499379] head: ffff888829e60c00 0000000080200018 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 19.500844] head: 0057ffffc0000003 ffffea0020a79801 ffffea0020a79848 00000000ffffffff [ 19.502316] head: 0000000800000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 19.503784] page dumped because: k ---truncated---
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49886?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-49886?
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-2024-49886 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49886 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Also known as AZL-52900, BELL-CVE-2024-49886, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49886, GHSA-h9pq-rfrf-6f7p, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49886.