CVE-2024-36881 (GCVE-0-2024-36881)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-30 15:28 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:46
VLAI
Title
mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-31 18:32 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f , < 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931 (git)
Affected: f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f , < 8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29d (git)
Affected: f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f , < c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e734 (git)
Affected: 3e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587d (git)
Affected: 5.19.6 , < 5.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.31 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.10 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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