CVE-2024-35797 Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELDOC-6869420
  • published18 May 2024
  • disclosed17 May 2024

Introduced: 17 May 2024

CVE-2024-35797  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-doc to version 0:5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:6567.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc 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:

mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs

When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs:

  1. A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the shmem inode's xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[].

    Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further.

  2. When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in progress and we're before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation, or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the shmem swap entry.

    This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently evicted" count.

    Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case.

    Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.

CVSS Scores

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