CVE-2024-58019: nvkm/gsp: correctly advance the read pointer of GSP message queue

Q: What is the severity of CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

Q: How do I fix CVE-2024-58019?

To fix CVE-2024-58019, update your Linux kernel to the latest patched version provided by your distribution.

Q: What systems are affected by CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 affects various versions of the Linux kernel across multiple distributions.

Q: What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 is a vulnerability related to the handling of GSP message queues in the Linux kernel.

Q: Is there a recommended action for CVE-2024-58019?

It is recommended to immediately update the kernel to mitigate any potential risks associated with CVE-2024-58019.

Published Feb 27, 2025

Updated

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

nvkm/gsp: correctly advance the read pointer of GSP message queue

A GSP event message consists three parts: message header, RPC header, message body. GSP calculates the number of pages to write from the total size of a GSP message. This behavior can be observed from the movement of the write pointer.

However, nvkm takes only the size of RPC header and message body as the message size when advancing the read pointer. When handling a two-page GSP message in the non rollback case, It wrongly takes the message body of the previous message as the message header of the next message. As the "message length" tends to be zero, in the calculation of size needs to be copied (0 - size of (message header)), the size needs to be copied will be "0xffffffxx". It also triggers a kernel panic due to a NULL pointer error.

[ 547.614102] msg: 00000f90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 d7 18 fb 8b 00 00 00 ........@....... [ 547.622533] msg: 00000fa0: 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ................ [ 547.630965] msg: 00000fb0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ................ [ 547.639397] msg: 00000fc0: ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ [ 547.647832] nvkm 0000:c1:00.0: gsp: peek msg rpc fn:0 len:0x0/0xffffffffffffffe0 [ 547.655225] nvkm 0000:c1:00.0: gsp: get msg rpc fn:0 len:0x0/0xffffffffffffffe0 [ 547.662532] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 [ 547.669485] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 547.674624] #PF: errorcode(0x0000) - not-present page [ 547.679755] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 547.682294] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 547.686643] CPU: 22 PID: 322 Comm: kworker/22:1 Tainted: G E 6.9.0-rc6+ #1 [ 547.694893] Hardware name: ASRockRack 1U1G-MILAN/N/ROMED8-NL, BIOS L3.12E 09/06/2022 [ 547.702626] Workqueue: events r535gspmsgqwork [nvkm] [ 547.707921] RIP: 0010:r535gspmsgrecv+0x87/0x230 [nvkm] [ 547.713375] Code: 00 8b 70 08 48 89 e1 31 d2 4c 89 f7 e8 12 f5 ff ff 48 89 c5 48 85 c0 0f 84 cf 00 00 00 48 81 fd 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 c4 00 00 00 <8b> 55 10 41 8b 46 30 85 d2 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 83 f8 04 76 10 ba 05 [ 547.732119] RSP: 0018:ffffabe440f87e10 EFLAGS: 00010203 [ 547.737335] RAX: 0000000000000010 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 000000000000003f [ 547.744461] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffabe4480a8030 RDI: 0000000000000010 [ 547.751585] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffabe440f87bb0 [ 547.758707] R10: ffffabe440f87dc8 R11: 0000000000000010 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 547.765834] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9351df1e5000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 547.772958] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff93708eb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 547.781035] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 547.786771] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 00000003cc220002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 547.793896] PKRU: 55555554 [ 547.796600] Call Trace: [ 547.799046] <TASK> [ 547.801152] ? die+0x20/0x70 [ 547.804211] ? pagefaultoops+0x75/0x170 [ 547.808221] ? printhexdump+0x100/0x160 [ 547.812226] ? excpagefault+0x64/0x150 [ 547.816152] ? asmexcpagefault+0x22/0x30 [ 547.820341] ? r535gspmsgrecv+0x87/0x230 [nvkm] [ 547.825184] r535gspmsgqwork+0x42/0x50 [nvkm] [ 547.829845] processonework+0x196/0x3d0 [ 547.833861] workerthread+0x2fc/0x410 [ 547.837613] ? pfxworkerthread+0x10/0x10 [ 547.841885] kthread+0xdf/0x110 [ 547.845031] ? pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 547.848775] retfromfork+0x30/0x50 [ 547.852354] ? pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 547.856097] retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30 [ 547.860019] </TASK> [ 547.862208] Modules linked in: nvkm(E) gsplog(E) sndseqdummy(E) sndhrtimer(E) sndseq(E) sndtimer(E) sndseqdevice(E) snd(E) soundcore(E) rfkill(E) qrtr(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ipmissif(E) amdatl(E) intelraplmsr(E) intelraplcommon(E) amd64edac(E) mlx5ib(E) edacmceamd(E) kvmamd ---truncated---

Affected Software

122 affected componentsFixes available

Linux Linux kernel

Linux Linux kernel>=6.7<6.12.14

Linux Linux kernel>=6.13<6.13.3

debian/linux<6.12.15-1

6.12.15-1

debian/linux<6.12.15-1

6.12.15-1

debian/linux

6.1.176-16.1.190-16.12.107-16.12.115-27.2.12-17.2.15-1

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure-edge*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-gke-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-oem*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-gke*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-intel-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.10*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.6*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-raspi2*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-allwinner-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.8<6.8.0-1032.34~22.04.1

6.8.0-1032.34~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.8<6.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1

6.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.8<6.8.0-1033.35~22.04.1

6.8.0-1033.35~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1

6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-ibm-6.8<6.8.0-1029.29~22.04.1

6.8.0-1029.29~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-64.67.1~22.04.1

6.8.0-64.67.1~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.8<6.8.0-1031.34~22.04.1

6.8.0-1031.34~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.17*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.0*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.1*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.8<6.8.0-1029.30~22.04.1

6.8.0-1029.30~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.8<6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1

6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-starfive-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.8<6.8.1-1025.26~22.04.1

6.8.1-1025.26~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux<6.8.0-64.67

6.8.0-64.67

ubuntu/linux-aws<6.8.0-1032.34

6.8.0-1032.34

ubuntu/linux-azure<6.8.0-1034.39

6.8.0-1034.39

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11<6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia<6.8.0-1022.23

6.8.0-1022.23

ubuntu/linux-gcp<6.8.0-1033.35

6.8.0-1033.35

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.11<6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gke<6.8.0-1028.32

6.8.0-1028.32

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<6.8.0-1015.17

6.8.0-1015.17

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.11<6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1

6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-ibm<6.8.0-1029.29

6.8.0-1029.29

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<6.8.0-64.67.1

6.8.0-64.67.1

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11<6.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1

6.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<6.8.0-1031.34

6.8.0-1031.34

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.11<6.11.0-1010.10

6.11.0-1010.10

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-lowlatency<6.8.0-1031.34.1

6.8.0-1031.34.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<6.8.0-1008.8

6.8.0-1008.8

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.11<6.11.0-1022.22

6.11.0-1022.22

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.8<6.8.0-1031.31

6.8.0-1031.31

ubuntu/linux-oracle<6.8.0-1029.30

6.8.0-1029.30

ubuntu/linux-raspi<6.8.0-1031.35

6.8.0-1031.35

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx<6.8.0-1017.18

6.8.0-1017.18

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime<6.8.0-2026.27

6.8.0-2026.27

ubuntu/linux-realtime<6.8.1-1025.26

6.8.1-1025.26

ubuntu/linux-fips<6.8.0-78.78+fips1

6.8.0-78.78+fips1

ubuntu/linux-vmware*

Remediation

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Event History

Feb 27, 2025

CVE Published

via MITRE·02:12 AM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·02:12 AM

DescriptionSeverity

Data Sourced

via OSV·03:15 AM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Data Sourced

via NVD·03:15 AM

RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-58019?

To fix CVE-2024-58019, update your Linux kernel to the latest patched version provided by your distribution.

What systems are affected by CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 affects various versions of the Linux kernel across multiple distributions.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 is a vulnerability related to the handling of GSP message queues in the Linux kernel.

Is there a recommended action for CVE-2024-58019?

It is recommended to immediately update the kernel to mitigate any potential risks associated with CVE-2024-58019.

CVE-2024-58019: nvkm/gsp: correctly advance the read pointer of GSP message queue

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-58019?

How do I fix CVE-2024-58019?

What systems are affected by CVE-2024-58019?

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-58019?

Is there a recommended action for CVE-2024-58019?

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