CVE-2024-26813

Technical Description

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

vfio/platform: Create persistent IRQ handlers

The vfio-platform SET_IRQS ioctl currently allows loopback triggering of

an interrupt before a signaling eventfd has been configured by the user,

which thereby allows a NULL pointer dereference.

Rather than register the IRQ relative to a valid trigger, register all

IRQs in a disabled state in the device open path. This allows mask

operations on the IRQ to nest within the overall enable state governed

by a valid eventfd signal. This decouples @masked, protected by the

@locked spinlock from @trigger, protected via the @igate mutex.

In doing so, it's guaranteed that changes to @trigger cannot race the

IRQ handlers because the IRQ handler is synchronously disabled before

modifying the trigger, and loopback triggering of the IRQ via ioctl is

safe due to serialization with trigger changes via igate.

For compatibility, request_irq() failures are maintained to be local to

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

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