CVE-2024-39474

Technical Description

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

mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with __GFP_NOFAIL

commit a421ef303008 ("mm: allow !GFP_KERNEL allocations for kvmalloc")

includes support for __GFP_NOFAIL, but it presents a conflict with commit

dd544141b9eb ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is OOM-killed"). A

possible scenario is as follows:

process-a

__vmalloc_node_range(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL)

__vmalloc_area_node()

vm_area_alloc_pages()

--> oom-killer send SIGKILL to process-a

if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) break;

--> return NULL;

To fix this, do not check fatal_signal_pending() in vm_area_alloc_pages()

if __GFP_NOFAIL set.

This issue occurred during OPLUS KASAN TEST. Below is part of the log

-> oom-killer sends signal to process

[65731.222840] [ T1308] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/apps/uid_10198,task=gs.intelligence,pid=32454,uid=

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

References