CVE-2024-26710

powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

published April 3, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

KASAN is seen to increase stack usage, to the point that it was reported

to lead to stack overflow on some 32-bit machines (see link).

To avoid overflows the stack size was doubled for KASAN builds in

commit 3e8635fb2e07 ("powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with

KASAN").

However with a 32KB stack size to begin with, the doubling leads to a

64KB stack, which causes build errors:

arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S:249: Error: operand out of range (0x000000000000fe50 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007fff)

Although the asm could be reworked, in practice a 32KB stack seems

sufficient even for KASAN builds - the additional usage seems to be in

the 2-3KB range for a 64-bit KASAN build.

So only increase the stack for KASAN if the stack size is < 32KB.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00245 · 14.9th percentile
Published
2024-04-03T14:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 14:55Z
    powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB
    cvelistv5