mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE
If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early
section, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However,
compound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect
and initializes only the reduced number of struct pages. As a result, the
remaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can later lead
to unexpected behavior or crashes.
Fix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when calculating how
many struct pages to initialize.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11f2826e9ee6f24aaa774e3dcd75abbe4b3091b6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511a60e71aec308b24722cffc1912bf6befb87bfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b91e27bce37cab9f35de0059278ebe457ca9878bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5ef574d57e4a701485c13f26822328c91f05413https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd681403a87085562499d60325b7b45d3be11217https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da5234df0941665f3a3f5b80f3dab94046537be0