Linux Kernel up to 6.1.114/6.6.58/6.11.5 LoongArch stack_top stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.114/6.6.58/6.11.5. This issue affects the function stack_top of the component LoongArch. Performing a manipulation results in stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-50133. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.114/6.6.58/6.11.5. This affects the function stack_top of the component LoongArch. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Don't crash in stack_top() for tasks without vDSO Not all tasks have a vDSO mapped, for example kthreads never do. If such a task ever ends up calling stack_top(), it will derefence the NULL vdso pointer and crash. This can for example happen when using kunit: [] stack_top+0x58/0xa8 [] arch_pick_mmap_layout+0x164/0x220 [] kunit_vm_mmap_init+0x108/0x12c [] __kunit_add_resource+0x38/0x8c [] kunit_vm_mmap+0x88/0xc8 [] usercopy_test_init+0xbc/0x25c [] kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0x184 [] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x48 [] kthread+0xc8/0xd4 [] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0xa4

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-50133 since 10/21/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2025).

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 6.1.115, 6.6.59 or 6.11.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a67d4a02bf43/a94c197d4d74/041cc3860b06/134475a9ab84 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-2024-3339). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.114
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.6.51
• 6.6.52
• 6.6.53
• 6.6.54
• 6.6.55
• 6.6.56
• 6.6.57
• 6.6.58
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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