UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50199: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unusevma I got a bad pud error and lost a 1GB HugeTLB when calling swapoff. The problem can be reproduced by the following steps: 1. Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory. 2. Swapout the above anonymous memory. 3. run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message: mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7) We can tell that pudclearbad is called by pudnoneorclearbad in unusepudrange() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never be freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages for unusevma to fix it.
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Event History
Frequently Asked Questions
What conditions are needed to trigger this issue?
The reported reproduction requires an anonymous 1 GB HugeTLB allocation alongside other anonymous memory, swapping out that other memory, and then running swapoff. Exploitation requires local access and low privileges, according to the supplied severity vector.
Which Ubuntu kernel packages are listed as affected?
The listed packages are ubuntu/linux, ubuntu/linux-fips, ubuntu/linux-aws, ubuntu/linux-azure, ubuntu/linux-aws-fips, ubuntu/linux-azure-fips, ubuntu/linux-gcp, and ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips.
How might an administrator recognize that the issue has occurred?
When swapoff is run under the affected conditions, the kernel may log a bad PUD error, including a message from mm/pgtable-generic.c. A 1 GB HugeTLB page can be lost from the page table and consequently never freed.