Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-7459262
- published 16 Jul 2024
- disclosed 12 Jul 2024
Introduced: 12 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-39497 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/shmem-helper: Fix BUG_ON() on mmap(PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE)
Lack of check for copy-on-write (COW) mapping in drm_gem_shmem_mmap allows users to call mmap with PROT_WRITE and MAP_PRIVATE flag causing a kernel panic due to BUG_ON in vmf_insert_pfn_prot: BUG_ON((vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) && is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags));
Return -EINVAL early if COW mapping is detected.
This bug affects all drm drivers using default shmem helpers. It can be reproduced by this simple example: void *ptr = mmap(0, size, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, mmap_offset); ptr[0] = 0;
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39497
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c71c42809ef4b17f5d874cdb2d3bf40e847b86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4a8b89bf6787090b56424d269bf84ba00c3263
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39bc27bd688066a63e56f7f64ad34fae03fbe3b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2219e5f97244b79c276751a1167615b9714db1b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae63a8c1685e16958560ec08d30defdc5b9cca0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a508a102edf8735adc9bb73d37dd13c38d1a1b10