CVE-2024-36881

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

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
May 30, 2024
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
May 30, 2024

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f to before 1da0471de653b13c8f63dcd32a23574d683c8310Affected
  • f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f to before 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931Affected
  • f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f to before 8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29dAffected
  • f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f to before c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734Affected
  • 3e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587dAffected
  • 5.19.6 to before 5.20Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.31 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.8.10 through 6.8.*Not affected
  • 6.9 and laterNot affected

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