Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-36925
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
swiotlb: initialise restricted pool list_head when SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y
Using restricted DMA pools (CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y) in conjunction
with dynamic SWIOTLB (CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y) leads to the following
crash when initialising the restricted pools at boot-time:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| pc : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| lr : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xf0/0x1ec
| Call trace:
| rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| of_reserved_mem_device_init_by_idx+0x18c/0x238
| of_dma_configure_id+0x31c/0x33c
| platform_dma_configure+0x34/0x80
faddr2line reveals that the crash is in the list validation code:
include/linux/list.h:83
include/linux/rculist.h:79
include/linux/rculist.h:106
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:306
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:1695
because add_mem_pool() is trying to list_add_rcu() to a NULL
'mem->pools'.
Fix the crash by initialising the 'mem->pools' list_head in
rmem_swiotlb_device_init() before calling add_mem_pool().
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 4.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2024-36925
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.20
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.21
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.22
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.23
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.24
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.25
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.26
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.27
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.28
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.29
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.30
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.7.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8.9