CVE-2024-36881

Summary

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

mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones

Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIO_UNREGISTER ioctl, not a close() on the userfaultfd itself. Cover that too. This fixes a WARN trace.

The only user visible side effect is the user can observe leftover wr-protect bits even if the user close()ed on an userfaultfd when releasing the last reference of it. However hopefully that should be harmless, and nothing bad should happen even if so.

This change is now more important after the recent page-table-check patch we merged in mm-unstable (446dd9ad37d0 ("mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries")), as we'll do sanity check on uffd-wp bits without vma context. So it's better if we can 100% guarantee no uffd-wp bit leftovers, to make sure each report will be valid.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxf369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931affected
LinuxLinuxf369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < 8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29daffected
LinuxLinuxf369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f < c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734affected
LinuxLinux3e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587daffected
LinuxLinux5.19.6 < 5.20affected
LinuxLinux6.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.0unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.31 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.8.10 <= 6.8.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.9 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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