Vulnerability · Published May 30, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-36881mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIO_UNREGISTER ioctl, not a close() on the userfaultfd itself. Cover that too. This fixes a WARN trace. The only user visible side effect is the user can observe leftover wr-protect bits even if the user close()ed on an userfaultfd when releasing the last reference of it. However hopefully that should be harmless, and nothing bad should happen even if so. This change is now more important after the recent page-table-check patch we merged in mm-unstable (446dd9ad37d0 ("mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries")), as we'll do sanity check on uffd-wp bits without vma context. So it's better if we can 100% guarantee no uffd-wp bit leftovers, to make sure each report will be valid.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-36881
Debian:13linux6.8.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36881
Debian:14linux6.8.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-40.40UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1013.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1012.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1012.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1012.13UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1012.13~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1008.11UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-40.40~22.04.3UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-40.40.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1011.11UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1011.11~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1011.11.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1010.10~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1009.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-40.40.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36881

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f – before 1da0471de653b13c8f63dcd32a23574d683c8310f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f – before 377f3a9a3d032a52325a5b110379a25dd1ab1931f369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f – before 8d8b68a5b0c9fb23d37df06bb273ead38fd5a29df369b07c861435bd812a9d14493f71b34132ed6f – before c88033efe9a391e72ba6b5df4b01d6e628f4e7343e2747c3ddfa717697c3cc2aa6ab989e48d6587d5.19.6 – before 5.20
Linux Linux 6.0

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