CVE-2024-38667
Published: Jun 24, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted. Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early"). However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 2875fe0561569f82d0e63658ccf0d11ce7da8922 - < ea22d4195cca13d5fdbc4d6555a2dfb8a7867a9eaffected 2875fe0561569f82d0e63658ccf0d11ce7da8922 - < 3090c06d50eaa91317f84bf3eac4c265e6cb8d44affected 2875fe0561569f82d0e63658ccf0d11ce7da8922 - < 0c1f28c32a194303da630fca89481334b9547b80affected 2875fe0561569f82d0e63658ccf0d11ce7da8922 - < a638b0461b58aa3205cd9d5f14d6f703d795b4af |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.7unaffected 0 - < 5.7unaffected 6.1.93 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.33 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.9.4 - <= 6.9.*+1 more versions |
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