CVE-2024-57917

CVE-2024-57917

High · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

topology: Keep the cpumask unchanged when printing cpumap

During fuzz testing, the following warning was discovered:

different return values (15 and 11) from vsnprintf("%*pbl

", ...)

test:keyward is WARNING in kvasprintf

WARNING: CPU: 55 PID: 1168477 at lib/kasprintf.c:30 kvasprintf+0x121/0x130

Call Trace:

kvasprintf+0x121/0x130

kasprintf+0xa6/0xe0

bitmap_print_to_buf+0x89/0x100

core_siblings_list_read+0x7e/0xb0

kernfs_file_read_iter+0x15b/0x270

new_sync_read+0x153/0x260

vfs_read+0x215/0x290

ksys_read+0xb9/0x160

do_syscall_64+0x56/0x100

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

The call trace shows that kvasprintf() reported this warning during the

printing of core_siblings_list. kvasprintf() has several steps:

(1) First, calculate the length of the resulting formatted string.

(2) Allocate a buffer based on the returned length.

(3) Then, perform the actual string formatting.

(4) Check whether the lengths of the formatted strings returned in

steps (1) and (2) are consistent.

If the core_cpumask is modified between steps (1) and (3), the lengths

obtained in these two steps may not match. Indeed our test includes cpu

hotplugging, which should modify core_cpumask while printing.

To fix this issue, cache the cpumask into a temporary variable before

calling cpumap_print_{list, cpumask}_to_buf(), to keep it unchanged

during the printing process.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00217 · 11.5th percentile
Published
2025-01-19T17:15Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.15, < 5.15.1775.15.177
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1256.1.125
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.726.6.72
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.106.12.10
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 11:52Z
    topology: Keep the cpumask unchanged when printing cpumap
    cvelistv5