In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd
unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant
pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIO_UNREGISTER ioctl,
not a close() on the userfaultfd itself. Cover that too. This fixes a WARN
trace. The only user visible side effect is the user can observe leftover
wr-protect bits even if the user close()ed on an userfaultfd when releasing
the last reference of it. However hopefully that should be harmless, and
nothing bad should happen even if so. This change is now more important
after the recent page-table-check patch we merged in mm-unstable
(446dd9ad37d0 (“mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect
entries”)), as we’ll do sanity check on uffd-wp bits without vma context.
So it’s better if we can 100% guarantee no uffd-wp bit leftovers, to make
sure each report will be valid.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-aws-6.5 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-azure | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-azure-6.5 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-gcp | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-gcp-6.5 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-gke | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-ibm | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-intel | < any | UNKNOWN |
git.kernel.org/linus/c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734 (6.9)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931
git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29d
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-36881
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36881
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-36881
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36881