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Linux Linux — ring-buffer: Fix overflow in __rb_map_vma
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0018 8.1 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 117c39200d9d760cbd5944bb89efb7b9c51965aa – —
Linux 6.10 – 6.12.7
TIMELINE
Jan 9 Reserved by Linux
Jan 11 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-56368 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ring-buffer: Fix overflow in __rb_map_vma
An overflow occurred when performing the following calculation:
nr_pages = ((nr_subbufs + 1) << subbuf_order) - pgoff;
Add a check before the calculation to avoid this problem.
syzbot reported this as a slab-out-of-bounds in __rb_map_vma:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __rb_map_vma+0x9ab/0xae0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7058
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880767dd2b8 by task syz-executor187/5836
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5836 Comm: syz-executor187 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-syzkaller-00159-gf932fb9b4074 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/25/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:602
__rb_map_vma+0x9ab/0xae0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7058
ring_buffer_map+0x56e/0x9b0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7138
tracing_buffers_mmap+0xa6/0x120 kernel/trace/trace.c:8482
call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2183 [inline]
mmap_file mm/internal.h:124 [inline]
__mmap_new_file_vma mm/vma.c:2291 [inline]
__mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2355 [inline]
__mmap_region+0x1786/0x2670 mm/vma.c:2456
mmap_region+0x127/0x320 mm/mmap.c:1348
do_mmap+0xc00/0xfc0 mm/mmap.c:496
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1ba/0x360 mm/util.c:580
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x32c/0x5c0 mm/mmap.c:542
__do_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:89 [inline]
__se_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:82 [inline]
__x64_sys_mmap+0x125/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:82
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The reproducer for this bug is:
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#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int page_size = getpagesize();
int fd;
void *meta;
system("echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/buffer_size_kb");
fd = open("/sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY);
meta = mmap(NULL, page_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, page_size * 5);
}
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Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| January 9, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| January 11, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-56368 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 117c39200d9d760cbd5944bb89efb7b9c51965aa | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.10 | 6.12.7 |
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