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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 6, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

mm/mempolicy: fix migrate_to_node() assuming there is at least one VMA in a MM

We currently assume that there is at least one VMA in a MM, which isn't
true.

So we might end up having find_vma() return NULL, to then de-reference
NULL. So properly handle find_vma() returning NULL.

This fixes the report:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6021 Comm: syz-executor284 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00187-gf868cd251776 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024
RIP: 0010:migrate_to_node mm/mempolicy.c:1090 [inline]
RIP: 0010:do_migrate_pages+0x403/0x6f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1194
Code: ...
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000375fd08 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000375fd78 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88807e171300 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: ffff88803390c044
RBP: ffff88807e171428 R08: 0000000000000014 R09: fffffbfff2039ef1
R10: ffffffff901cf78f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffffc9000375fe90 R14: ffffc9000375fe98 R15: ffffc9000375fdf8
FS: 00005555919e1380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005555919e1ca8 CR3: 000000007f12a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

kernel_migrate_pages+0x5b2/0x750 mm/mempolicy.c:1709
__do_sys_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1727 [inline]
__se_sys_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1723 [inline]
__x64_sys_migrate_pages+0x96/0x100 mm/mempolicy.c:1723
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 6, 2025

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

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56611

GHSA ID

GHSA-vmhm-g2hv-x7wj

Source code

No known source code

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