drivers/virt/acrn: fix PFNMAP PTE checks in acrn_vm_ram_map()
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-416 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/virt/acrn: fix PFNMAP PTE checks in acrn_vm_ram_map() Patch series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes". Patch #1 fixes a bunch of issues I spotted in the acrn driver. It compiles, that's all I know. I'll appreciate some review and testing from acrn folks. Patch #2+#3 improve follow_pte(), passing a VMA instead of the MM, adding more sanity checks, and improving the documentation. Gave it a quick test on x86-64 using VM_PAT that ends up using follow_pte(). This patch (of 3): We currently miss handling various cases, resulting in a dangerous follow_pte() (previously follow_pfn()) usage. (1) We're not checking PTE write permissions. Maybe we should simply always require pte_write() like we do for pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_WRITE)? Hard to tell, so let's check for ACRN_MEM_ACCESS_WRITE for now. (2) We're not rejecting refcounted pages. As we are not using MMU notifiers, messing with refcounted pages is dangerous and can result in use-after-free. Let's make sure to reject them. (3) We are only looking at the first PTE of a bigger range. We only lookup a single PTE, but memmap->len may span a larger area. Let's loop over all involved PTEs and make sure the PFN range is actually contiguous. Reject everything else: it couldn't have worked either way, and rather made use access PFNs we shouldn't be accessing.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 5.15.33 to before 5.15.161; 5.16.19 to before 5.17; 5.17.2 to before 5.18 | 5.15.161, 5.17, 5.18 | Patch available | CNA |
| Linux | Linux | 5.18 and later | 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3, 6.10 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.15.33 to before 5.15.161; 5.16.19 to before 5.17; 5.17.2 to before 5.18 Fixed in 5.15.161, 5.17, 5.18 Patch available CNA
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.18 and later Fixed in 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3, 6.10 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.15.33 to before 5.15.161; 5.16.19 to before 5.17; 5.17.2 to before 6.1.93; 6.2 to before 6.6.33; 6.7 to before 6.8.12; 6.9 to before 6.9.3 | Vulnerable | Linux |
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.15.33 to before 5.15.161; 5.16.19 to before 5.17; 5.17.2 to before 6.1.93; 6.2 to before 6.6.33; 6.7 to before 6.8.12; 6.9 to before 6.9.3 Vulnerable ·Linux
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.161, 5.17, 5.18
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3, 6.10
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-38610
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h3h3-jq7c-xgpc
References
Patch 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c6705aa47b5b78d7ad36fea832bb69caa5bf49a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afeb0e69627695f759fc73c39c1640dbf8649b32
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e873f36ec890bece26ecce850e969917bceebbb6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4ba3cf3a15ccfbaf787d0296fa42cdb00da9b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c8d6e24930b8ef7d4a81787627c559ae0e0d3bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6586008f7b638f91f3332602592caa8b00b559
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Sources
- CVE-2024-38610 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-38610 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h3h3-jq7c-xgpc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-38610 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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