In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES
On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb:
ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug
the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer
being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously
NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used.
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff]
was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of
memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This
in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES
triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to
access node 64’s (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data.
To compensate said change, make memblock_set_node() warn on and adjust
a passed in value of MAX_NUMNODES, just like various other functions
already do.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-azure | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-gcp | < 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 |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-lowlatency | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-nvidia | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-oem-6.8 | < any | UNKNOWN |
git.kernel.org/linus/e0eec24e2e199873f43df99ec39773ad3af2bff7 (6.10-rc4)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f742b8f738918f683198a18ec3c691acda14c4
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0eec24e2e199873f43df99ec39773ad3af2bff7
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-40917
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40917
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-40917
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40917