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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53116

medium Nessus Plugin ID 231954

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/panthor: Fix handling of partial GPU mapping of BOs This commit fixes the bug in the handling of partial mapping of the buffer objects to the GPU, which caused kernel warnings. Panthor didn't correctly handle the case where the partial mapping spanned multiple scatterlists and the mapping offset didn't point to the 1st page of starting scatterlist.
 The offset variable was not cleared after reaching the starting scatterlist. Following warning messages were seen. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 650 at drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c:659 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 <snip> pc : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 lr : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x2cc/0x5a0 <snip> Call trace:
 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0
 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 arm_lpae_unmap_pages+0x80/0xa0 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0xac/0x1c8 [panthor] panthor_gpuva_sm_step_unmap+0x4c/0xc8 [panthor] op_unmap_cb.isra.23.constprop.30+0x54/0x80
 __drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x184/0x1c8 drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x40/0x60 panthor_vm_exec_op+0xa8/0x120 [panthor] panthor_vm_bind_exec_sync_op+0xc4/0xe8 [panthor] panthor_ioctl_vm_bind+0x10c/0x170 [panthor] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xbc/0x138 drm_ioctl+0x210/0x4b0 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb0/0xf8 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110 el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x98/0xf8 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x34/0xc8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x174/0x178 <snip> panthor : [drm] drm_WARN_ON(unmapped_sz != pgsize * pgcount) WARNING: CPU:
 1 PID: 650 at drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c:922 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] <snip> pc : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] lr : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] <snip> panthor : [drm] *ERROR* failed to unmap range ffffa388f000-ffffa3890000 (requested range ffffa388c000-ffffa3890000) (CVE-2024-53116)

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: Medium

ID: 231954

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_53116.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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53116