CVE-2024-53105

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
5.5 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare() Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page being freed using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at free_pages_prepare() stage: BUG: Bad page state in process syz.5.504 pfn:61f45 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x61f45 flags: 0xfff00000080204(referenced|workingset|mlocked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000080204 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8443, tgid 8442 (syz.5.504), ts 201884660643, free_ts 201499827394 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x303f/0x3190 mm/page_alloc.c:3457 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4733 alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265 kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99 kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline] kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5488 [inline] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x12dc/0x2240 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5530 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:1007 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x510/0xc90 fs/ioctl.c:950 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:165 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb4/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:386 do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:411 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e page last free pid 8399 tgid 8399 stack trace: reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1108 [inline] free_unref_folios+0xf12/0x18d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2686 folios_put_refs+0x76c/0x860 mm/swap.c:1007 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x5c8/0x690 mm/swap_state.c:335 __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline] tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline] tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:366 [inline] tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a3/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:373 tlb_finish_mmu+0xd4/0x200 mm/mmu_gather.c:465 exit_mmap+0x496/0xc40 mm/mmap.c:1926 __mmput+0x115/0x390 kernel/fork.c:1348 exit_mm+0x220/0x310 kernel/exit.c:571 do_exit+0x9b2/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:926 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097 x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8442 Comm: syz.5.504 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 bad_page+0x176/0x1d0 mm/page_alloc.c:501 free_page_is_bad mm/page_alloc.c:918 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1100 [inline] free_unref_page+0xed0/0xf20 mm/page_alloc.c:2638 kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1327 [inline] kvm_put_kvm+0xc75/0x1350 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1386 kvm_vcpu_release+0x54/0x60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4143 __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline] do_exit+0xa2f/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:939 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [in ---truncated---

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53105

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53105

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024120244-CVE-2024-53105-d978@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:6966
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt Not affected
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 5.5 5.5
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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