Description

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

riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However
this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts.
Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted.

Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28
("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early").
However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem
has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function
smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs
structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save
or restore inexistent V context.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-38667

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea22d4195cca13d5fdbc4d6555a2dfb8a7867a9e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3090c06d50eaa91317f84bf3eac4c265e6cb8d44
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c1f28c32a194303da630fca89481334b9547b80
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af

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