Linux Kernel up to 5.15.175/6.1.123/6.6.69/6.12.8 buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.175/6.1.123/6.6.69/6.12.8 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-57897. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.175/6.1.123/6.6.69/6.12.8. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. 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/amdkfd: Correct the migration DMA map direction The SVM DMA device map direction should be set the same as the DMA unmap setting, otherwise the DMA core will report the following warning. Before finialize this solution, there're some discussion on the DMA mapping type(stream-based or coherent) in this KFD migration case, followed by https://lore.kernel.org/all/04d4ab32 [email protected]/T/. As there's no dma_sync_single_for_*() in the DMA buffer accessed that because this migration operation should be sync properly and automatically. Give that there's might not be a performance problem in various cache sync policy of DMA sync. Therefore, in order to simplify the DMA direction setting alignment, let's set the DMA map direction as BIDIRECTIONAL. [ 150.834218] WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1812 at kernel/dma/debug.c:1028 check_unmap+0x1cc/0x930 [ 150.834225] Modules linked in: amdgpu(OE) amdxcp drm_exec(OE) gpu_sched drm_buddy(OE) drm_ttm_helper(OE) ttm(OE) drm_suballoc_helper(OE) drm_display_helper(OE) drm_kms_helper(OE) i2c_algo_bit rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 nfs lockd grace netfs xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink xfrm_user xfrm_algo iptable_nat xt_addrtype iptable_filter br_netfilter nvme_fabrics overlay nfnetlink_cttimeout nfnetlink openvswitch nsh nf_conncount nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c bridge stp llc sch_fq_codel intel_rapl_msr amd_atl intel_rapl_common snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_scodec_component snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg edac_mce_amd snd_pci_acp6x snd_hda_codec snd_acp_config snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_soc_acpi kvm_amd sunrpc snd_pcm kvm binfmt_misc snd_seq_midi crct10dif_pclmul snd_seq_midi_event ghash_clmulni_intel sha512_ssse3 snd_rawmidi nls_iso8859_1 sha256_ssse3 sha1_ssse3 snd_seq aesni_intel snd_seq_device crypto_simd snd_timer cryptd input_leds [ 150.834310] wmi_bmof serio_raw k10temp rapl snd sp5100_tco ipmi_devintf soundcore ccp ipmi_msghandler cm32181 industrialio mac_hid msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore drm(OE) ip_tables x_tables pci_stub crc32_pclmul nvme ahci libahci i2c_piix4 r8169 nvme_core i2c_designware_pci realtek i2c_ccgx_ucsi video wmi hid_generic cdc_ether usbnet usbhid hid r8152 mii [ 150.834354] CPU: 8 PID: 1812 Comm: rocrtst64 Tainted: G OE 6.10.0-custom #492 [ 150.834358] Hardware name: AMD Majolica-RN/Majolica-RN, BIOS RMJ1009A 06/13/2021 [ 150.834360] RIP: 0010:check_unmap+0x1cc/0x930 [ 150.834363] Code: c0 4c 89 4d c8 e8 34 bf 86 00 4c 8b 4d c8 4c 8b 45 c0 48 8b 4d b8 48 89 c6 41 57 4c 89 ea 48 c7 c7 80 49 b4 84 e8 b4 81 f3 ff 0b 48 c7 c7 04 83 ac 84 e8 76 ba fc ff 41 8b 76 4c 49 8d 7e 50 [ 150.834365] RSP: 0018:ffffaac5023739e0 EFLAGS: 00010086 [ 150.834368] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff8566a2e0 RCX: 0000000000000027 [ 150.834370] RDX: ffff8f6a8f621688 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8f6a8f621680 [ 150.834372] RBP: ffffaac502373a30 R08: 00000000000000c9 R09: ffffaac502373850 [ 150.834373] R10: ffffaac502373848 R11: ffffffff84f46328 R12: ffffaac502373a40 [ 150.834375] R13: ffff8f6741045330 R14: ffff8f6741a77700 R15: ffffffff84ac831b [ 150.834377] FS: 00007faf0fc94c00(0000) GS:ffff8f6a8f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 150.834379] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 150.834381] CR2: 00007faf0b600020 CR3: 000000010a52e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 [ 150.834383] Call Trace: [ 150.834385] [ 150.834387] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80 [ 150.834393] ? __warn+0x8c/0x140 [ 150.834397] ? check_unmap+0x1cc/0x930 [ 150.834400] ? report_bug+0x193/0x1a0 [ 150.834406] ? handle_bug+0x46/0x80 [ 150.834410] ? exc_invalid_op+0x1d/0x80 [ 150.834413] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30 [ 150.834420] ? check_unmap+0x1cc/0x930 [ 150.834425] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x86/0x90 [ 150.834431] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 150.834435] ---truncated---

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-57897 since 01/11/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/09/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216460 (SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0577-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70 or 6.12.9 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 22d36ad92e5703e2e9bdf228990c0999d5d53ea3/465b18e1c518e799593797d4603f4ab76de4e1d8/d0fafe701c6aca785cc8685f9f76fdc73e662f47/de39f72953953ca7a2630f9b80ccdfef40568746/5c3de6b02d38eb9386edf50490e050bb44398e40 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 (216460) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0105). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
• Dell Secure Connect Gateway

Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.175
• 6.1.123
• 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
• 6.6.59
• 6.6.60
• 6.6.61
• 6.6.62
• 6.6.63
• 6.6.64
• 6.6.65
• 6.6.66
• 6.6.67
• 6.6.68
• 6.6.69
• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
• 6.12.7
• 6.12.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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