Linux Kernel up to 6.1.94/6.6.34/6.9.4 memory-failure reference count

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.94/6.6.34/6.9.4. Affected is an unknown function of the component memory-failure. Such manipulation leads to reference count. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-39298. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.94/6.6.34/6.9.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component memory-failure. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a reference count vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-911. The product uses a reference count to manage a resource, but it does not update or incorrectly updates the reference count. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00 flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff) raw: 06fffe0000000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageBuddy(page)) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:1009! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:__del_page_from_free_list+0x151/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffffa49c90437998 EFLAGS: 00000046 RAX: 0000000000000035 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c0 RBP: ffffd901233b8000 R08: ffffffffab5511f8 R09: 0000000000008c69 R10: 0000000000003c15 R11: ffffffffab5511f8 R12: ffff8dd8fffc0c80 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8dd8fffc0c80 R15: 0000000000000009 FS: 00007ff916304740(0000) GS:ffff8dd8dfd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055eae50124c8 CR3: 00000008479e0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: __rmqueue_pcplist+0x23b/0x520 get_page_from_freelist+0x26b/0xe40 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x113/0x1120 __folio_alloc_noprof+0x11/0xb0 alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio.isra.0+0x5a/0x130 __alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio+0xe7/0x140 alloc_pool_huge_folio+0x68/0x100 set_max_huge_pages+0x13d/0x340 hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0xe8/0x110 proc_sys_call_handler+0x194/0x280 vfs_write+0x387/0x550 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7ff916114887 RSP: 002b:00007ffec8a2fd78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055eae500e350 RCX: 00007ff916114887 RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 000055eae500e390 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 000055eae50104c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055eae50104c0 R10: 0000000000000077 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004 R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00007ff916216b80 R15: 00007ff916216a00 Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- And before the panic, there had an warning about bad page state: BUG: Bad page state in process page-types pfn:8cee00 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00 flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff) page_type: 0xffffff7f(buddy) raw: 06fffe0000000000 ffffd901241c0008 ffffd901240f8008 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject CPU: 8 PID: 154211 Comm: page-types Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00499-g5544ec3178e2-dirty #22 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x83/0xa0 bad_page+0x63/0xf0 free_unref_page+0x36e/0x5c0 unpoison_memory+0x50b/0x630 simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110 debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60 full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80 vfs_write+0xcd/0x550 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f189a514887 RSP: 002b:00007ffdcd899718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f189a514887 RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 00007ffdcd899730 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffdcd8997a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffdcd8994b2 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdcda199a8 R13: 0000000000404af1 R14: 000000000040ad78 R15: 00007f189a7a5040 The root cause should be the below race: memory_failure try_memory_failure_hugetlb me_huge_page __page_handle_poison dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio drain_all_pages -- Buddy page can be isolated e.g. for compaction. take_page_off_buddy -- Failed as page is not in the ---truncated---

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-39298 since 06/24/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213470 (Debian dla-4008 : linux-config-6.1 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.95, 6.6.35 or 6.9.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 00b0752c7f15/bb9bb13ce64c/41cd2de3c950/8cf360b9d6a8 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (213470) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1293). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Ubuntu Linux
• IBM DataPower Gateway

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.1.0
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• 6.6.34
• 6.9.0
• 6.9.1
• 6.9.2
• 6.9.3
• 6.9.4

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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