Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5 iounmap information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5. This affects the function iounmap. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-50107. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function iounmap. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86/intel/pmc: Fix pmc_core_iounmap to call iounmap for valid addresses Commit 50c6dbdfd16e ("x86/ioremap: Improve iounmap() address range checks") introduces a WARN when adrress ranges of iounmap are invalid. On Thinkpad P1 Gen 7 (Meteor Lake-P) this caused the following warning to appear: WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 713 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:461 iounmap+0x58/0x1f0 Modules linked in: rfkill(+) snd_timer(+) fjes(+) snd soundcore intel_pmc_core(+) int3403_thermal(+) int340x_thermal_zone intel_vsec pmt_telemetry acpi_pad pmt_class acpi_tad int3400_thermal acpi_thermal_rel joydev loop nfnetlink zram xe drm_suballoc_helper nouveau i915 mxm_wmi drm_ttm_helper gpu_sched drm_gpuvm drm_exec drm_buddy i2c_algo_bit crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ttm crc32c_intel polyval_clmulni rtsx_pci_sdmmc ucsi_acpi polyval_generic mmc_core hid_multitouch drm_display_helper ghash_clmulni_intel typec_ucsi nvme sha512_ssse3 video sha256_ssse3 nvme_core intel_vpu sha1_ssse3 rtsx_pci cec typec nvme_auth i2c_hid_acpi i2c_hid wmi pinctrl_meteorlake serio_raw ip6_tables ip_tables fuse CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 713 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2iounmap+ #42 Hardware name: LENOVO 21KWCTO1WW/21KWCTO1WW, BIOS N48ET19W (1.06 ) 07/18/2024 RIP: 0010:iounmap+0x58/0x1f0 Code: 85 6a 01 00 00 48 8b 05 e6 e2 28 04 48 39 c5 72 19 eb 26 cc cc cc 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 00 32 00 48 8d 44 02 ff 48 39 c5 72 23 0b 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d 41 5c c3 cc cc cc cc 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffff888131eff038 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: ffffc90000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888e33b80000 RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffff888e33bc29c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8881598a8000 R09: ffff888e2ccedc10 R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffffb3367634 R12: 00000000fe000000 R13: ffff888101d0da28 R14: ffffffffc2e437e0 R15: ffff888110b03b28 FS: 00007f3c1d4b3980(0000) GS:ffff888e33b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005651cfc93578 CR3: 0000000124e4c002 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? __warn.cold+0xb6/0x176 ? iounmap+0x58/0x1f0 ? report_bug+0x1f4/0x2b0 ? handle_bug+0x58/0x90 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? iounmap+0x58/0x1f0 pmc_core_ssram_get_pmc+0x477/0x6c0 [intel_pmc_core] ? __pfx_pmc_core_ssram_get_pmc+0x10/0x10 [intel_pmc_core] ? __pfx_do_pci_enable_device+0x10/0x10 ? pci_wait_for_pending+0x60/0x110 ? pci_enable_device_flags+0x1e3/0x2e0 ? __pfx_mtl_core_init+0x10/0x10 [intel_pmc_core] pmc_core_ssram_init+0x7f/0x110 [intel_pmc_core] mtl_core_init+0xda/0x130 [intel_pmc_core] ? __mutex_init+0xb9/0x130 pmc_core_probe+0x27e/0x10b0 [intel_pmc_core] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x96/0xf0 ? __pfx_pmc_core_probe+0x10/0x10 [intel_pmc_core] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10 ? device_pm_check_callbacks+0x82/0x370 ? acpi_dev_pm_attach+0x234/0x2b0 platform_probe+0x9f/0x150 really_probe+0x1e0/0x8a0 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x370 ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120 __driver_attach+0x190/0x4a0 ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10 bus_for_each_dev+0x103/0x180 ? __pfx_bus_for_each_dev+0x10/0x10 ? klist_add_tail+0x136/0x270 bus_add_driver+0x2fc/0x540 driver_register+0x1a5/0x360 ? __pfx_pmc_core_driver_init+0x10/0x10 [intel_pmc_core] do_one_initcall+0xa4/0x380 ? __pfx_do_one_initcall+0x10/0x10 ? kasan_unpoison+0x44/0x70 do_init_module+0x296/0x800 load_module+0x5090/0x6ce0 ? __pfx_load_module+0x10/0x10 ? ima_post_read_file+0x193/0x200 ? __pfx_ima_post_read_file+0x10/0x10 ? rw_verify_area+0x152/0x4c0 ? kernel_read_file+0x257/0x750 ? __pfx_kernel_read_file+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_filemap_get_read_batch+0x10/0x10 ? init_module_from_file+0xd1/0x130 init_module_from_file+0xd1/0x130 ? __pfx_init_module_from_file+0x10/0 ---truncated---

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-50107 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211516 (CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-529.el9), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.11.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 01c473e64caf/48771da48072 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 (211516), EUVD (EUVD-2024-44597) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3339). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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