{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2024-52319", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-01-11T12:33:33.694Z", "datePublished": "2025-01-11T12:35:39.280Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:43:16.556Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:43:16.556Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: use aligned address in clear_gigantic_page()\n\nIn current kernel, hugetlb_no_page() calls folio_zero_user() with the\nfault address. Where the fault address may be not aligned with the huge\npage size. Then, folio_zero_user() may call clear_gigantic_page() with\nthe address, while clear_gigantic_page() requires the address to be huge\npage size aligned. So, this may cause memory corruption or information\nleak, addtional, use more obvious naming 'addr_hint' instead of 'addr' for\nclear_gigantic_page()." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached through a page fault on a hugetlbfs/MAP_HUGETLB mapping in the faulting task's own address space (hugetlb_no_page() → folio_zero_user()), requiring local execution on the host. There is no network- or adjacent-reachable path into mm/memory.c's page-zeroing helpers.\nAC:L - The attacker fully and deterministically controls the misalignment — vmf->real_address is the raw faulting address, so simply touching any non-huge-page-aligned byte of the mapping on first fault reproduces the wrong cache-alias selection every time, with no race and no memory-layout guessing.\nPR:L - An ordinary unprivileged user can allocate the mapping: mmap(MAP_HUGETLB|MAP_HUGE_*) uses HUGETLB_ANONHUGE_INODE, which bypasses the can_do_hugetlb_shm() capability gate in hugetlb_file_setup(), and hugetlbfs mounts are commonly world-accessible. No capability, and no CAP_IPC_LOCK or hugetlb_shm_group membership, is needed.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the flaw entirely on their own by faulting a mapping they created themselves; no action by any other user or administrator is required at attack time.\nS:U - The mis-zeroed page and the leaked/corrupted data both live within the same kernel-managed security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Because the gigantic folio is cleared through the wrong virtual cache alias (sparc64 clear_user_page's TLBTEMP color bit, sh's skipped __flush_purge_region), the user reads stale lines and recovers the prior contents of that physical memory — potentially hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes of another process's or KVM guest's freed hugetlb data. The fix commit explicitly cites \"information leak\".\nI:H - The fix commit explicitly states the unaligned address \"may cause memory corruption\": dirty stale aliased cache lines can be written back over the region the kernel just zeroed, silently corrupting memory in a page the kernel guarantees is zero-filled, including shared hugetlbfs pages consumed by other processes.\nA:H - Silent corruption of hugetlbfs-backed memory that callers assume is zeroed — typically KVM guest RAM or a database's shared segment on these gigantic-page deployments — reliably produces crashes and hangs in the affected workloads, and the higher value is taken given the fix commit's own \"memory corruption\" characterization." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c", "mm/memory.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "78fefd04c123493bbf28434768fa577b2153c79b", "lessThan": "b79b6fe0737f233f0be1465052b7f0e75f324735", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "78fefd04c123493bbf28434768fa577b2153c79b", "lessThan": "8aca2bc96c833ba695ede7a45ad7784c836a262e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c", "mm/memory.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.11", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.11", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.7", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.13", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.11", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.7" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.11", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b79b6fe0737f233f0be1465052b7f0e75f324735" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aca2bc96c833ba695ede7a45ad7784c836a262e" } ], "title": "mm: use aligned address in clear_gigantic_page()", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }