Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-50221

high Nessus Plugin ID 230727

Language:

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: Vangogh: Fix kernel memory out of bounds write KASAN reports that the GPU metrics table allocated in vangogh_tables_init() is not large enough for the memset done in smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics(). Condensed report follows: [ 33.861314] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu] [ 33.861799] Write of size 168 at addr ffff888129f59500 by task mangoapp/1067 ... [ 33.861808] CPU: 6 UID:
1000 PID: 1067 Comm: mangoapp Tainted: G W 6.12.0-rc4 #356 1a56f59a8b5182eeaf67eb7cb8b13594dd23b544 [ 33.861816] Tainted: [W]=WARN [ 33.861818] Hardware name: Valve Galileo/Galileo, BIOS F7G0107 12/01/2023 [ 33.861822] Call Trace: [ 33.861826] <TASK> [ 33.861829] dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90 [ 33.861838] print_report+0xce/0x620 [ 33.861853] kasan_report+0xda/0x110 [ 33.862794] kasan_check_range+0xfd/0x1a0 [ 33.862799] __asan_memset+0x23/0x40 [ 33.862803] smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.863306] vangogh_get_gpu_metrics_v2_4+0x123/0xad0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.864257] vangogh_common_get_gpu_metrics+0xb0c/0xbc0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.865682] amdgpu_dpm_get_gpu_metrics+0xcc/0x110 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.866160] amdgpu_get_gpu_metrics+0x154/0x2d0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.867135] dev_attr_show+0x43/0xc0 [ 33.867147] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1f1/0x3b0 [ 33.867155] seq_read_iter+0x3f8/0x1140 [ 33.867173] vfs_read+0x76c/0xc50 [ 33.867198] ksys_read+0xfb/0x1d0 [ 33.867214] do_syscall_64+0x90/0x160 ... [ 33.867353] Allocated by task 378 on cpu 7 at 22.794876s: [ 33.867358] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x50 [ 33.867364] kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60 [ 33.867367] __kasan_kmalloc+0x87/0x90 [ 33.867371] vangogh_init_smc_tables+0x3f9/0x840 [amdgpu] [ 33.867835] smu_sw_init+0xa32/0x1850 [amdgpu] [ 33.868299] amdgpu_device_init+0x467b/0x8d90 [amdgpu] [ 33.868733] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x19/0xf0 [amdgpu] [ 33.869167] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x2d6/0xcd0 [amdgpu] [ 33.869608] local_pci_probe+0xda/0x180 [ 33.869614] pci_device_probe+0x43f/0x6b0 Empirically we can confirm that the former allocates 152 bytes for the table, while the latter memsets the 168 large block. Root cause appears that when GPU metrics tables for v2_4 parts were added it was not considered to enlarge the table to fit. The fix in this patch is rather brute force and perhaps later should be done in a smarter way, by extracting and consolidating the part version to size logic to a common helper, instead of brute forcing the largest possible allocation. Nevertheless, for now this works and fixes the out of bounds write. v2: * Drop impossible v3_0 case. (Mario) (cherry picked from commit 0880f58f9609f0200483a49429af0f050d281703) (CVE-2024-50221)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 230727

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_50221.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50221

Detections

Analytics