Description

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

iommufd: Require drivers to supply the cache_invalidate_user ops

If drivers don't do this then iommufd will oops invalidation ioctls with
something like:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000086000004
EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000101059000
[0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 371 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-gde77230ac23a #9
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 81400809 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
pc : 0x0
lr : iommufd_hwpt_invalidate+0xa4/0x204
sp : ffff800080f3bcc0
x29: ffff800080f3bcf0 x28: ffff0000c369b300 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 00000000c1e334a0 x21: ffff0000c1e334a0
x20: ffff800080f3bd38 x19: ffff800080f3bd58 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffff8240d6d8
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000001000000002 x7 : 0000fffeac1ec950 x6 : 000000000000000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-46824

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.41% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46824
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89827a4de802765b1ebb401fc1e73a90108c7520
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a11dda723c6493bb1853bbc61c093377f96e2d47

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