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CVE-2024-50279

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CVE-2024-50279

Published: Nov 19, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes out-of-bounds access. Reproduce steps: 1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset) dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80) dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup resume cdata dmsetup resume cache KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131 (...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0 (...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 Fix by making the index post-incremented.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 - < 4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4
affected
f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 - < 8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bf
affected
f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 - < ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818
affected
f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 - < ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7f
affected
f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498 - < 56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.13
unaffected
0 - < 3.13
unaffected
4.19.324 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.286 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.230 - <= 5.10.*

+5 more versions

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