mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 85% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths
Any codepath that zaps page table entries must invoke MMU notifiers to
ensure that secondary MMUs (like KVM) don't keep accessing pages which
aren't mapped anymore. Secondary MMUs don't hold their own references to
pages that are mirrored over, so failing to notify them can lead to page
use-after-free.
I'm marking this as addressing an issue introduced in commit f3f0e1d2150b
("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages"), but most of
the security impact of this only came in commit 27e1f8273113 ("khugepaged:
enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP"), which actually omitted flushes
for the removal of present PTEs, not just for the removal of empty page
tables.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a3f8c6cd29d9078cc81b29d39d0e9ae1d6a03c3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/275c626c131cfe141beeb6c575e31fa53d32da19https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5450535901d89a5dcca5fbbc59a24fe89caeb465https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ffc2a75534d9d74d49760f983f8eb675fa63d69https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f445ca2e0e59c7971d0b7b853465e50844ab596https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c23105673228c349739e958fa33955ed8faddcafhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f268f6cf875f3220afc77bdd0bf1bb136eb54db9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff2a1a6f869650aec99e9d070b5ab625bfbc5bc3