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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 3, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 7, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

LoongArch: Change acpi_core_pic[NR_CPUS] to acpi_core_pic[MAX_CORE_PIC]

With default config, the value of NR_CPUS is 64. When HW platform has
more then 64 cpus, system will crash on these platforms. MAX_CORE_PIC
is the maximum cpu number in MADT table (max physical number) which can
exceed the supported maximum cpu number (NR_CPUS, max logical number),
but kernel should not crash. Kernel should boot cpus with NR_CPUS, let
the remainder cpus stay in BIOS.

The potential crash reason is that the array acpi_core_pic[NR_CPUS] can
be overflowed when parsing MADT table, and it is obvious that CORE_PIC
should be corresponding to physical core rather than logical core, so it
is better to define the array as acpi_core_pic[MAX_CORE_PIC].

With the patch, system can boot up 64 vcpus with qemu parameter -smp 128,
otherwise system will crash with the following message.

[ 0.000000] CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000420000004259, era == 90000000037a5f0c, ra == 90000000037a46ec
[ 0.000000] Oops[#1]:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2+ #192
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 0.000000] pc 90000000037a5f0c ra 90000000037a46ec tp 9000000003c90000 sp 9000000003c93d60
[ 0.000000] a0 0000000000000019 a1 9000000003d93bc0 a2 0000000000000000 a3 9000000003c93bd8
[ 0.000000] a4 9000000003c93a74 a5 9000000083c93a67 a6 9000000003c938f0 a7 0000000000000005
[ 0.000000] t0 0000420000004201 t1 0000000000000000 t2 0000000000000001 t3 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] t4 0000000000000003 t5 0000000000000000 t6 0000000000000030 t7 0000000000000063
[ 0.000000] t8 0000000000000014 u0 ffffffffffffffff s9 0000000000000000 s0 9000000003caee98
[ 0.000000] s1 90000000041b0480 s2 9000000003c93da0 s3 9000000003c93d98 s4 9000000003c93d90
[ 0.000000] s5 9000000003caa000 s6 000000000a7fd000 s7 000000000f556b60 s8 000000000e0a4330
[ 0.000000] ra: 90000000037a46ec platform_init+0x214/0x250
[ 0.000000] ERA: 90000000037a5f0c efi_runtime_init+0x30/0x94
[ 0.000000] CRMD: 000000b0 (PLV0 -IE -DA +PG DACF=CC DACM=CC -WE)
[ 0.000000] PRMD: 00000000 (PPLV0 -PIE -PWE)
[ 0.000000] EUEN: 00000000 (-FPE -SXE -ASXE -BTE)
[ 0.000000] ECFG: 00070800 (LIE=11 VS=7)
[ 0.000000] ESTAT: 00010000 [PIL] (IS= ECode=1 EsubCode=0)
[ 0.000000] BADV: 0000420000004259
[ 0.000000] PRID: 0014c010 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-3A5000)
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=(ptrval), task=(ptrval))
[ 0.000000] Stack : 9000000003c93a14 9000000003800898 90000000041844f8 90000000037a46ec
[ 0.000000] 000000000a7fd000 0000000008290000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000019d8000 000000000f556b60
[ 0.000000] 000000000a7fd000 000000000f556b08 9000000003ca7700 9000000003800000
[ 0.000000] 9000000003c93e50 9000000003800898 9000000003800108 90000000037a484c
[ 0.000000] 000000000e0a4330 000000000f556b60 000000000a7fd000 000000000f556b08
[ 0.000000] 9000000003ca7700 9000000004184000 0000000000200000 000000000e02b018
[ 0.000000] 000000000a7fd000 90000000037a0790 9000000003800108 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 000000000e0a4330 000000000f556b60 000000000a7fd000
[ 0.000000] 000000000f556b08 000000000eaae298 000000000eaa5040 0000000000200000
[ 0.000000] ...
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [<90000000037a5f0c>] efi_runtime_init+0x30/0x94
[ 0.000000] [<90000000037a46ec>] platform_init+0x214/0x250
[ 0.000000] [<90000000037a484c>] setup_arch+0x124/0x45c
[ 0.000000] [<90000000037a0790>] start_kernel+0x90/0x670
[ 0.000000] [<900000000378b0d8>] kernel_entry+0xd8/0xdc

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 3, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 3, 2024
Last updated Nov 7, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26768

GHSA ID

GHSA-hg7x-x4qq-cq6w

Source code

No known source code

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