Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2024-36925

Disclosure Date: May 30, 2024
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Description

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

swiotlb: initialise restricted pool list_head when SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y

Using restricted DMA pools (CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y) in conjunction
with dynamic SWIOTLB (CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y) leads to the following
crash when initialising the restricted pools at boot-time:

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| pc : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| lr : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xf0/0x1ec
| Call trace:
| rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| of_reserved_mem_device_init_by_idx+0x18c/0x238
| of_dma_configure_id+0x31c/0x33c
| platform_dma_configure+0x34/0x80

faddr2line reveals that the crash is in the list validation code:

include/linux/list.h:83
include/linux/rculist.h:79
include/linux/rculist.h:106
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:306
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:1695

because add_mem_pool() is trying to list_add_rcu() to a NULL
‘mem->pools’.

Fix the crash by initialising the ‘mem->pools’ list_head in
rmem_swiotlb_device_init() before calling add_mem_pool().

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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

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel

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