CVE-2023-52489

CVE Details

Release Date:

2024-02-29

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage\nThe below race is observed on a PFN which falls into the device memory\nregion with the system memory configuration where PFN's are such that\n[ZONE_NORMAL ZONE_DEVICE ZONE_NORMAL]. Since normal zone start and end\npfn contains the device memory PFN's as well, the compaction triggered\nwill try on the device memory PFN's too though they end up in NOP(because\npfn_to_online_page() returns NULL for ZONE_DEVICE memory sections). When\nfrom other core, the section mappings are being removed for the\nZONE_DEVICE region, that the PFN in question belongs to, on which\ncompaction is currently being operated is resulting into the kernel crash\nwith CONFIG_SPASEMEM_VMEMAP enabled. The crash logs can be seen at [1].\ncompact_zone()memunmap_pages\n----------------------------\n__pageblock_pfn_to_page\n......\n(a)pfn_valid():\nvalid_section()//return true\n(b)__remove_pages()->\nsparse_remove_section()->\nsection_deactivate():\n[Free the array ms->usage and set\nms->usage = NULL]\npfn_section_valid()\n[Access ms->usage which\nis NULL]\nNOTE: From the above it can be said that the race is reduced to between\nthe pfn_valid()/pfn_section_valid() and the section deactivate with\nSPASEMEM_VMEMAP enabled.\nThe commit b943f045a9af(\mm/sparse:

See more information about CVE-2023-52489 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.5	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel)	ELSA-2024-3138	2024-05-23
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel)	ELSA-2024-2394	2024-05-02

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