Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2 HugeTLB Page dump_mapping memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2 and classified as critical. This impacts the function dump_mapping of the component HugeTLB Page Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-49934. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2. Affected by this issue is the function dump_mapping of the component HugeTLB Page Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name It's observed that a crash occurs during hot-remove a memory device, in which user is accessing the hugetlb. See calltrace as following: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14045 at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1278 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 Modules linked in: kmem device_dax cxl_mem cxl_pmem cxl_port cxl_pci dax_hmem dax_pmem nd_pmem cxl_acpi nd_btt cxl_core crc32c_intel nvme virtiofs fuse nvme_core nfit libnvdimm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc s mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 Code: 48 8b 00 a8 04 0f 84 b5 fe ff ff e9 1c ff ff ff 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e2 be 01 00 00 00 bf 02 00 00 00 e8 b5 ef 24 00 e9 42 fe ff ff 0b 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 ea 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a575f0 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: ffff88800c303600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffff82504162 RDI: ffffffff824b2c36 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90000a57658 R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff88800bc2e040 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f51cb57d880(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000001000 CR3: 00000000072e2004 CR4: 00000000001706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ? __warn+0x8d/0x190 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 ? report_bug+0x1c3/0x1d0 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70 ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 ? exc_page_fault+0x31/0x200 exc_page_fault+0x68/0x200 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:dentry_name+0x1f4/0x440 ? dentry_name+0x2fa/0x440 vsnprintf+0x1f3/0x4f0 vprintk_store+0x23a/0x540 vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x330 _printk+0x58/0x80 dump_mapping+0x10b/0x1a0 ? __pfx_free_object_rcu+0x10/0x10 __dump_page+0x26b/0x3e0 ? vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x330 ? _printk+0x58/0x80 ? dump_page+0x17/0x50 dump_page+0x17/0x50 do_migrate_range+0x2f7/0x7f0 ? do_migrate_range+0x42/0x7f0 ? offline_pages+0x2f4/0x8c0 offline_pages+0x60a/0x8c0 memory_subsys_offline+0x9f/0x1c0 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x77/0x100 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x60 device_offline+0xe3/0x110 state_store+0x6e/0xc0 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x200 vfs_write+0x39f/0x560 ksys_write+0x65/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x62/0x130 Previously, some sanity check have been done in dump_mapping() before the print facility parsing '%pd' though, it's still possible to run into an invalid dentry.d_name.name. Since dump_mapping() only needs to dump the filename only, retrieve it by itself in a safer way to prevent an unnecessary crash. Note that either retrieving the filename with '%pd' or strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(), the filename could be unreliable.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-49934 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/18/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213018 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.10.14 or 6.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f92b8829c6e7/ef921bc72328/7f7b850689ac 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 (213018) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3251). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• NetApp StorageGRID
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Kyocera Printer
• NetApp AFF
• NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
• SUSE openSUSE
• IBM Security Guardium
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• NetApp FAS
• SolarWinds Security Event Manager
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• Dell PowerScale OneFS

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2
• 6.10.3
• 6.10.4
• 6.10.5
• 6.10.6
• 6.10.7
• 6.10.8
• 6.10.9
• 6.10.10
• 6.10.11
• 6.10.12
• 6.10.13
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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