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Linux Linux — mm: vmalloc: ensure vmap_block is initialised before adding to queue
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0023 13.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 88e0ad40d08a73a74c597e69f4cd2d1fba3838b5 – —
Linux 6.10 – 6.6.51
TIMELINE
Sep 11 Reserved by Linux
Sep 27 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-46847 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: vmalloc: ensure vmap_block is initialised before adding to queue
Commit 8c61291fd850 ("mm: fix incorrect vbq reference in
purge_fragmented_block") extended the 'vmap_block' structure to contain a
'cpu' field which is set at allocation time to the id of the initialising
CPU.
When a new 'vmap_block' is being instantiated by new_vmap_block(), the
partially initialised structure is added to the local 'vmap_block_queue'
xarray before the 'cpu' field has been initialised. If another CPU is
concurrently walking the xarray (e.g. via vm_unmap_aliases()), then it
may perform an out-of-bounds access to the remote queue thanks to an
uninitialised index.
This has been observed as UBSAN errors in Android:
| Internal error: UBSAN: array index out of bounds: 00000000f2005512 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
|
| Call trace:
| purge_fragmented_block+0x204/0x21c
| _vm_unmap_aliases+0x170/0x378
| vm_unmap_aliases+0x1c/0x28
| change_memory_common+0x1dc/0x26c
| set_memory_ro+0x18/0x24
| module_enable_ro+0x98/0x238
| do_init_module+0x1b0/0x310
Move the initialisation of 'vb->cpu' in new_vmap_block() ahead of the
addition to the xarray.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| September 11, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| September 27, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-46847 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 88e0ad40d08a73a74c597e69f4cd2d1fba3838b5 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.10 | 6.6.51 |
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