Description

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

tpm: Change to kvalloc() in eventlog/acpi.c

The following failure was reported on HPE ProLiant D320:

[ 10.693310][ T1] tpm_tis STM0925:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0x3, rev-id 0)
[ 10.848132][ T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 10.853559][ T1] WARNING: CPU: 59 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:4727 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x2ca/0x330
[ 10.862827][ T1] Modules linked in:
[ 10.866671][ T1] CPU: 59 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-lp155.2.g52785e2-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased) 588cd98293a7c9eba9013378d807364c088c9375
[ 10.882741][ T1] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen12/ProLiant DL320 Gen12, BIOS 1.20 10/28/2024
[ 10.892170][ T1] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_noprof+0x2ca/0x330
[ 10.898103][ T1] Code: 24 08 e9 4a fe ff ff e8 34 36 fa ff e9 88 fe ff ff 83 fe 0a 0f 86 b3 fd ff ff 80 3d 01 e7 ce 01 00 75 09 c6 05 f8 e6 ce 01 01 <0f> 0b 45 31 ff e9 e5 fe ff ff f7 c2 00 00 08 00 75 42 89 d9 80 e1
[ 10.917750][ T1] RSP: 0000:ffffb7cf40077980 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 10.923777][ T1] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000040cc0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 10.931727][ T1] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: 0000000000040cc0

The above transcript shows that ACPI pointed a 16 MiB buffer for the log
events because RSI maps to the 'order' parameter of __alloc_pages_noprof().
Address the bug by moving from devm_kmalloc() to devm_add_action() and...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-58005

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.76% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58005
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50365a6304a57266e8f4d3078060743c3b7a1e0d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/422d7f4e8d817be467986589c7968d3ea402f7da
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c8bfe643bbd00b04ee8f9545ef33bf6a68c38db
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3a860bc0fd6c07332e4911cf9a238d20de90173

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