CVE-2024-42300: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
erofs: fix race in z_erofs_get_gbuf()
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix race in z_erofs_get_gbuf()
In z_erofs_get_gbuf(), the current task may be migrated to another
CPU between `z_erofs_gbuf_id()` and `spin_lock(&gbuf->lock)`.
Therefore, z_erofs_put_gbuf() will trigger the following issue
which was found by stress test:
<2>[772156.434168] kernel BUG at fs/erofs/zutil.c:58!
..
<4>[772156.435007]
<4>[772156.439237] CPU: 0 PID: 3078 Comm: stress Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 6.10.0-rc7+ #2
<4>[772156.439239] Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 1.0.0 01/01/2017
<4>[772156.439241] pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
<4>[772156.439243] pc : z_erofs_put_gbuf+0x64/0x70 [erofs]
<4>[772156.439252] lr : z_erofs_lz4_decompress+0x600/0x6a0 [erofs]
..
<6>[772156.445958] stress (3127): drop_caches: 1
<4>[772156.446120] Call trace:
<4>[772156.446121] z_erofs_put_gbuf+0x64/0x70 [erofs]
<4>[772156.446761] z_erofs_lz4_decompress+0x600/0x6a0 [erofs]
<4>[772156.446897] z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x740/0xa10 [erofs]
<4>[772156.447036] z_erofs_runqueue+0x428/0x8c0 [erofs]
<4>[772156.447160] z_erofs_readahead+0x224/0x390 [erofs]
..
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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