CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-35988

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel on RISC-V 64-bit NOMMU systems, the TASK_SIZE definition is incorrect if any RAM exists above 4G, causing spurious failures in userspace access routines.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to segmentation faults, application malfunctions, or system instability on RISC-V NOMMU platforms with memory above 4G.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix that corrects the TASK_SIZE definition for RISC-V 64-bit NOMMU.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Fix TASK_SIZE on 64-bit NOMMU On NOMMU, userspace memory can come from anywhere in physical RAM. The current definition of TASK_SIZE is wrong if any RAM exists above 4G, causing spurious failures in the userspace access routines.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS