CVE-2024-50279
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2024
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes out-of-bounds access. Reproduce steps: 1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset) dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 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 dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80) dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup resume cdata dmsetup resume cache KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131 (...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0 (...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 Fix by making the index post-incremented.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | 4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | 8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | 56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2d | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | 3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22c | Unavailable | None listed |
| f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 | affected | git | 792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.13 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 3.13 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.19.324 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.19.* | None listed |
| 5.4.286 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.230 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.172 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.117 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.61 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.11.8 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.11.* | None listed |
| 6.12 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |