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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-35871" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-19T08:34:29.292Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:12:52.641Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-35871" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-35871.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35871" title: "riscv: process: Fix kernel gp leakage" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: process: Fix kernel gp leakage\n\nchildregs represents the registers which are active for the new thread\nin user context. For a kernel thread, childregs-\u003egp is never used since\nthe kernel gp is not touched by switch_to. For a user mode helper, the\ngp value can be observed in user space after execve or possibly by other\nmeans.\n\n[From the email thread]\n\nThe /* Kernel thread */ comment is somewhat inaccurate in that it is also used\nfor user_mode_helper threads, which exec a user process, e.g. /sbin/init or\nwhen /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern is a pipe. Such threads do not have\nPF_KTHREAD set and are valid targets for ptrace etc. even before they exec.\n\nchildregs is the *user* context during syscall execution and it is observable\nfrom userspace in at least five ways:\n\n1. kernel_execve does not currently clear integer registers, so the starting\n register state for PID 1 and other user processes started by the kernel has\n sp = user stack, gp = kernel __global_pointer$, all other integer registers\n zeroed by the memset in the patch comment.\n\n This is a bug in its own right, but I'm unwilling to bet that it is the only\n way to exploit the issue addressed by this patch.\n\n2. ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET): you can PTRACE_ATTACH to a user_mode_helper thread\n before it execs, but ptrace requires SIGSTOP to be delivered which can only\n happen at user/kernel boundaries.\n\n3. /proc/*/task/*/syscall: this is perfectly happy to read pt_regs for\n user_mode_helpers before the exec completes, but gp is not one of the\n registers it returns.\n\n4. PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER: LOCKDOWN_PERF normally prevents access to kernel\n addresses via PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR, but due to this bug kernel addresses\n are also exposed via PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER which is permitted under\n LOCKDOWN_PERF. I have not attempted to write exploit code.\n\n5. Much of the tracing infrastructure allows access to user registers. I have\n not attempted to determine which forms of tracing allow access to user\n registers without already allowing access to kernel registers." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9abc3e6f1116adb7a2d4fbb8ce20c37916976bf5"},{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dff6072124f6df77bfd36951fbd88565746980ef"},{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6583444d7e78dae750798552b65a2519ff3ca84"},{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00effef72c98294edb1efa87ffa0f6cfb61b36a4"},{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8dcba0691b8e42bddb61aab201e4d918a08e5d9"},{"version":"7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d14fa1fcf69db9d070e75f1c4425211fa619dfc8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.10.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.85","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.26","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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