CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-53187

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, io_pin_pages() in io_uring does not check for overflows when adding size to the user-provided address (uaddr). This can lead to errors and potential security vulnerabilities.

Risk Assessment

This may allow an attacker to trigger a kernel panic or exploit uninitialized memory, leading to denial of service or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds overflow checks in io_pin_pages().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: check for overflows in io_pin_pages WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5834 at io_uring/memmap.c:144 io_pin_pages+0x149/0x180 io_uring/memmap.c:144 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5834 Comm: syz-executor825 Not tainted 6.12.0-next-20241118-syzkaller #0 Call Trace: <TASK> __io_uaddr_map+0xfb/0x2d0 io_uring/memmap.c:183 io_rings_map io_uring/io_uring.c:2611 [inline] io_allocate_scq_urings+0x1c0/0x650 io_uring/io_uring.c:3470 io_uring_create+0x5b5/0xc00 io_uring/io_uring.c:3692 io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:3781 [inline] ... </TASK> io_pin_pages()'s uaddr parameter came directly from the user and can be garbage. Don't just add size to it as it can overflow.

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