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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38661): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 06/25/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 02/04/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/ap: Fix crash in AP internal function modify_bitmap()
A system crash like this
Failing address: 200000cb7df6f000 TEID: 200000cb7df6f403
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:00000002d71bc007 R3:00000003fe5b8007 S:000000011a446000 P:000000015660c13d
Oops: 0038 ilc:3 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: mlx5_ib ...
CPU: 8 PID: 7556 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7 #8
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (LPAR)
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 0000014b75e7b606 (ap_parse_bitmap_str+0x10e/0x1f8)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 ffffffffffffffc0 0000000000000001 00000048f96b75d3
000000cb00000100 ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff 000000cb7df6fce0
000000cb7df6fce0 00000000ffffffff 000000000000002b 00000048ffffffff
000003ff9b2dbc80 200000cb7df6fcd8 0000014bffffffc0 000000cb7df6fbc8
Krnl Code: 0000014b75e7b5fc: a7840047 brc 8,0000014b75e7b68a
0000014b75e7b600: 18b2 lr %r11,%r2
#0000014b75e7b602: a7f4000a brc 15,0000014b75e7b616
>0000014b75e7b606: eb22d00000e6 laog %r2,%r2,0(%r13)
0000014b75e7b60c: a7680001 lhi %r6,1
0000014b75e7b610: 187b lr %r7,%r11
0000014b75e7b612: 84960021 brxh %r9,%r6,0000014b75e7b654
0000014b75e7b616: 18e9 lr %r14,%r9
Call Trace:
[] ap_parse_bitmap_str+0x10e/0x1f8
([] ap_parse_bitmap_str+0xe4/0x1f8)
[] apmask_store+0x68/0x140
[] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x14e/0x1e8
[] vfs_write+0x1b4/0x448
[] ksys_write+0x74/0x100
[] __do_syscall+0x268/0x328
[] system_call+0x70/0x98
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[] ap_parse_bitmap_str+0x13e/0x1f8
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
occured when /sys/bus/ap/a[pq]mask was updated with a relative mask value
(like +0x10-0x12,+60,-90) with one of the numeric values exceeding INT_MAX.
The fix is simple: use unsigned long values for the internal variables. The
correct checks are already in place in the function but a simple int for
the internal variables was used with the possibility to overflow.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-38661
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-38661
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