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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 4, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 3, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

cgroup/cpuset: fix panic caused by partcmd_update

We find a bug as below:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000003
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 358 Comm: bash Tainted: G W I 6.6.0-10893-g60d6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/4
RIP: 0010:partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
Code: 01 48 85 d2 74 0d 48 83 05 29 3f f8 03 01 f3 48 0f bc c2 89 c0 48 9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000fdbc58 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000100000003 RBX: ffff888100b3dfa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000000000002fe80
RBP: ffff888100b3dfb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000fdbcb0 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff888100a92b48 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f44a5425740(0000) GS:ffff888237d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000100030973 CR3: 000000010722c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:

? show_regs+0x8c/0xa0
? __die_body+0x23/0xa0
? __die+0x3a/0x50
? page_fault_oops+0x1d2/0x5c0
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
? search_module_extables+0x2a/0xb0
? search_exception_tables+0x67/0x90
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x144/0x1b0
? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x211/0x360
? up_read+0x3b/0x50
? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1a/0x30
? exc_page_fault+0x890/0xd90
? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x24f/0x8d0
? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x24f/0x8d0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0x483/0x600
? partition_sched_domains_locked+0xf0/0x600
rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x806/0xdc0
update_partition_sd_lb+0x118/0x130
cpuset_write_resmask+0xffc/0x1420
cgroup_file_write+0xb2/0x290
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x194/0x290
new_sync_write+0xeb/0x160
vfs_write+0x16f/0x1d0
ksys_write+0x81/0x180
__x64_sys_write+0x21/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x2f25/0x4630
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
RIP: 0033:0x7f44a553c887

It can be reproduced with cammands:
cd /sys/fs/cgroup/
mkdir test
cd test/
echo +cpuset > ../cgroup.subtree_control
echo root > cpuset.cpus.partition
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus.effective
0-3
echo 0-3 > cpuset.cpus // taking away all cpus from root

This issue is caused by the incorrect rebuilding of scheduling domains.
In this scenario, test/cpuset.cpus.partition should be an invalid root
and should not trigger the rebuilding of scheduling domains. When calling
update_parent_effective_cpumask with partcmd_update, if newmask is not
null, it should recheck newmask whether there are cpus is available
for parect/cs that has tasks.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 4, 2024
Last updated Oct 3, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-44975

GHSA ID

GHSA-qh7m-p5jw-2wvg

Source code

No known source code

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