Linux Distros のパッチ未適用の脆弱性: CVE-2024-40918
high Nessus プラグイン ID 229087
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概要
Linux/Unix ホストには、ベンダーにより修正されていないことを示す脆弱性を持つ複数のパッケージがインストールされています。説明
Linux/Unix ホストには、ベンダーが提供するパッチが利用できない脆弱性の影響を受ける複数のパッケージがインストールされています。- Linux カーネルにおいて、以下の脆弱性は解決されました： parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems with random segmentation faults for many years. Systems with earlier processors are much more stable. Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems. The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and malloc. My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs is racy. 1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems. In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush. 2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations. This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in random inequivalent mappings to physical pages. The
__flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical address of the page.
We can also purge the TLB entry for the page before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in. When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are removed from the cache. It is not sufficient to just flush the lines to memory as they may come back.
This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required flush operations using tmpalias routines.
This includes flushes for user and kernel pages. After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900) and systems with more CPUs (rp4440). The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems.
Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed problematic. I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush. The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the associated page at a later time. I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440 and rp3440, as well as on my c8000. At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed. However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed bit is cleared in ---truncated--- (CVE-2024-40918)
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ソリューション
現時点で既知の解決策はありません。プラグインの詳細
深刻度: High
ID: 229087
ファイル名: unpatched_CVE_2024_40918.nasl
バージョン: 1.1
タイプ: local
エージェント: unix
ファミリー: Misc.
公開日: 2025/3/5
更新日: 2025/3/5
サポートされているセンサー: Nessus Agent, Nessus
リスク情報
VPR
リスクファクター: High
スコア: 7.4
CVSS v2
リスクファクター: Medium
基本値: 6.9
現状値: 5.1
ベクトル: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS スコアのソース: CVE-2024-40918
CVSS v3
リスクファクター: High
基本値: 7
現状値: 6.1
ベクトル: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
現状ベクトル: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
脆弱性情報
必要な KB アイテム: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched
エクスプロイトの容易さ: No known exploits are available
脆弱性公開日: 2024/7/12
参照情報
CVE: CVE-2024-40918