Linux Kernel up to 6.11.9 panthor buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.9. It has been rated as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component panthor. Performing a manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-53116. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.9. This affects an unknown function of the component panthor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. 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: drm/panthor: Fix handling of partial GPU mapping of BOs This commit fixes the bug in the handling of partial mapping of the buffer objects to the GPU, which caused kernel warnings. Panthor didn't correctly handle the case where the partial mapping spanned multiple scatterlists and the mapping offset didn't point to the 1st page of starting scatterlist. The offset variable was not cleared after reaching the starting scatterlist. Following warning messages were seen. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 650 at drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c:659 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 pc : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 lr : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x2cc/0x5a0 Call trace: __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 arm_lpae_unmap_pages+0x80/0xa0 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0xac/0x1c8 [panthor] panthor_gpuva_sm_step_unmap+0x4c/0xc8 [panthor] op_unmap_cb.isra.23.constprop.30+0x54/0x80 __drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x184/0x1c8 drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x40/0x60 panthor_vm_exec_op+0xa8/0x120 [panthor] panthor_vm_bind_exec_sync_op+0xc4/0xe8 [panthor] panthor_ioctl_vm_bind+0x10c/0x170 [panthor] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xbc/0x138 drm_ioctl+0x210/0x4b0 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb0/0xf8 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110 el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x98/0xf8 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x34/0xc8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x174/0x178 panthor : [drm] drm_WARN_ON(unmapped_sz != pgsize * pgcount) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 650 at drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c:922 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] pc : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] lr : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] panthor : [drm] *ERROR* failed to unmap range ffffa388f000-ffffa3890000 (requested range ffffa388c000-ffffa3890000)

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-53116 since 11/19/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/14/2026).

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 6.11.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch d3e61af64b77/3387e043918e 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-2024-3575). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• IBM DataPower Gateway
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5
• 6.11.6
• 6.11.7
• 6.11.8
• 6.11.9

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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