CVE-2024-36000 Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-7785062
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed20 May 2024

Introduced: 20 May 2024

CVE-2024-36000  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:5101.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge

There is a recent report on UFFDIO_COPY over hugetlb:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000ee06de0616177560@google.com/

350: lockdep_assert_held(&hugetlb_lock);

Should be an issue in hugetlb but triggered in an userfault context, where it goes into the unlikely path where two threads modifying the resv map together. Mike has a fix in that path for resv uncharge but it looks like the locking criteria was overlooked: hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio_rsvd() will update the cgroup pointer, so it requires to be called with the lock held.

CVSS Scores

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