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CVE-2024-50278
Summary

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

dm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume

Out-of-bounds access occurs if the fast device is expanded unexpectedly
before the first-time resume of the cache table. This happens because
expanding the fast device requires reloading the cache table for
cache_create to allocate new in-core data structures that fit the new
size, and the check in cache_preresume is not performed during the
first resume, leading to the issue.

Reproduce steps:

1. prepare component devices:

dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct

2. load a cache table of 512 cache blocks, and deliberately expand the
fast device before resuming the cache, making the in-core data
structures inadequate.

dmsetup create cache --notable
dmsetup reload cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup resume cdata
dmsetup resume cache

3. suspend the cache to write out the in-core dirty bitset and hint
array, leading to out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset at offset
0x40:

dmsetup suspend cache

KASAN reports:

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in is_dirty_callback+0x2b/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000085040 by task dmsetup/90

(...snip...)
The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at
[ffffc90000085000, ffffc90000087000) created by:
cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0

(...snip...)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffc90000084f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90000084f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
>ffffc90000085000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffffc90000085080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90000085100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

Fix by checking the size change on the first resume.

Publication Date Nov. 19, 2024, 11:16 a.m.
Registration Date Nov. 19, 2024, 4 p.m.
Last Update Nov. 19, 2024, 11:16 a.m.
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JVN Vulnerability Information
Linux の Linux Kernel における境界外読み取りに関する脆弱性
Title Linux の Linux Kernel における境界外読み取りに関する脆弱性
Summary

Linux の Linux Kernel には、境界外読み取りに関する脆弱性が存在します。

Possible impacts 情報を取得される、およびサービス運用妨害 (DoS) 状態にされる可能性があります。 
Solution

ベンダより正式な対策が公開されています。ベンダ情報を参照して適切な対策を実施してください。

Publication Date Nov. 4, 2024, midnight
Registration Date Nov. 28, 2024, 2:31 p.m.
Last Update Aug. 21, 2025, 2:06 p.m.
Affected System
Linux
Linux Kernel 3.13 以上 4.19.324 未満
Linux Kernel 4.20 以上 5.4.286 未満
Linux Kernel 5.11 以上 5.15.172 未満
Linux Kernel 5.16 以上 6.1.117 未満
Linux Kernel 5.5 以上 5.10.230 未満
Linux Kernel 6.12
Linux Kernel 6.2 以上 6.6.61 未満
Linux Kernel 6.7 以上 6.11.8 未満
CVE (情報セキュリティ 共通脆弱性識別子)
CWE (共通脆弱性タイプ一覧)
ベンダー情報
その他
Change Log
No Changed Details Date of change
1 [2024年11月28日]
  掲載
Nov. 28, 2024, 2:31 p.m.
2 [2025年08月21日]
  参考情報:JVN (JVNVU#92169998) を追加
  参考情報:ICS-CERT ADVISORY (ICSA-25-226-07) を追加
Aug. 21, 2025, 2:06 p.m.