Description

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

KVM: arm64: Fix shift-out-of-bounds bug

Fix a shift-out-of-bounds bug reported by UBSAN when running
VM with MTE enabled host kernel.

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c:1988:14
shift exponent 33 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 7629 Comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2 #34
Hardware name: IEI NF5280R7/Mitchell MB, BIOS 00.00. 2024-10-12 09:28:54 10/14/2024
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
show_stack+0x20/0x38
dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x90
dump_stack+0x18/0x28
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0xf8/0x1e0
reset_clidr+0x10c/0x1c8
kvm_reset_sys_regs+0x50/0x1c8
kvm_reset_vcpu+0xec/0x2b0
__kvm_vcpu_set_target+0x84/0x158
kvm_vcpu_set_target+0x138/0x168
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_vcpu_init+0x40/0x2b0
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x28c/0x4b8
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4bc/0x7a8
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb4/0x100
invoke_syscall+0x70/0x100
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x3c/0x158
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50139

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: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.46% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

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

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50139
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04ed2ba07ce73f323052475fbd33d647aca3ff2e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9e11794d910aa55300debbac5f0adcc42c491a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6c167afa090ea0451f91814e1318755a8fb8bb9

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