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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-50072

Disclosure Date: October 29, 2024
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Description

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

x86/bugs: Use code segment selector for VERW operand

Robert Gill reported below #GP in 32-bit mode when dosemu software was
executing vm86() system call:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 4 PID: 4610 Comm: dosemu.bin Not tainted 6.6.21-gentoo-x86 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge 1950/0H723K, BIOS 2.7.0 10/30/2010
EIP: restore_all_switch_stack+0xbe/0xcf
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: 00000000 ESP: ff8affdc
DS: 0000 ES: 0000 FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010046
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00c2101c CR3: 04b6d000 CR4: 000406d0
Call Trace:
show_regs+0x70/0x78
die_addr+0x29/0x70
exc_general_protection+0x13c/0x348
exc_bounds+0x98/0x98
handle_exception+0x14d/0x14d
exc_bounds+0x98/0x98
restore_all_switch_stack+0xbe/0xcf
exc_bounds+0x98/0x98
restore_all_switch_stack+0xbe/0xcf

This only happens in 32-bit mode when VERW based mitigations like MDS/RFDS
are enabled. This is because segment registers with an arbitrary user value
can result in #GP when executing VERW. Intel SDM vol. 2C documents the
following behavior for VERW instruction:

#GP(0) – If a memory operand effective address is outside the CS, DS, ES,

   FS, or GS segment limit.

CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS macro executes VERW instruction before returning to user
space. Use %cs selector to reference VERW operand. This ensures VERW will
not #GP for an arbitrary user %ds.

[ mingo: Fixed the SOB chain. ]

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

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