5.5

CVE-2024-57881

mm/page_alloc: don't call pfn_to_page() on possibly non-existent PFN in split_large_buddy()

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

mm/page_alloc: don't call pfn_to_page() on possibly non-existent PFN in split_large_buddy()

In split_large_buddy(), we might call pfn_to_page() on a PFN that might
not exist.  In corner cases, such as when freeing the highest pageblock in
the last memory section, this could result with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM &&
!CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME in __pfn_to_section() returning NULL and and
__section_mem_map_addr() dereferencing that NULL pointer.

Let's fix it, and avoid doing a pfn_to_page() call for the first
iteration, where we already have the page.

So far this was found by code inspection, but let's just CC stable as the
fix is easy.
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Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.10 < 6.12.7
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.17% 0.068
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA-ADP 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4234ca9884bcae9e48ed38652d91696ad5cd591d
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faeec8e23c10bd30e8aa759a2eb3018dae00f924
Patch