Linux Kernel up to 6.11.3 drm xe_bb_create_job buffer overflow

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.3. This vulnerability affects the function xe_bb_create_job of the component drm. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-50090. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.3. This issue affects the function xe_bb_create_job of the component drm. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/oa: Fix overflow in oa batch buffer By default xe_bb_create_job() appends a MI_BATCH_BUFFER_END to batch buffer, this is not a problem if batch buffer is only used once but oa reuses the batch buffer for the same metric and at each call it appends a MI_BATCH_BUFFER_END, printing the warning below and then overflowing. [ 381.072016] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 381.072019] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Assertion `bb->len * 4 + bb_prefetch(q->gt) <= size` failed! platform: LUNARLAKE subplatform: 1 graphics: Xe2_LPG / Xe2_HPG 20.04 step B0 media: Xe2_LPM / Xe2_HPM 20.00 step B0 tile: 0 VRAM 0 B GT: 0 type 1 So here checking if batch buffer already have MI_BATCH_BUFFER_END if not append it. v2: - simply fix, suggestion from Ashutosh (cherry picked from commit 9ba0e0f30ca42a98af3689460063edfb6315718a)

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-50090 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216493 (Ubuntu 24.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7276-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.11.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch bcb5be342170/6c10ba06bb1b 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 (216493) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3339). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source eCryptfs
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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Type

• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

Version

• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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