CVE-2024-42235

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On IBM Z / LinuxONE hosts this means any shared-tenant, container, or shell user.\nUI:N - The whole sequence is performed by the attacking process itself through ordinary syscalls; no victim must mount a filesystem, open a device, or take any other action.\nS:U - The corrupted page-allocator state and the freed reserved page remain entirely within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - On 6.6.y the reserved PFN 0 (the s390 absolute-zero lowcore holding restart PSWs and `restart_fn`/`restart_data` kernel pointers plus machine-check save areas) is released into the buddy allocator with the sanity checks compiled out, so it can be handed to an attacker-influenced allocation still containing that firmware/kernel state; repeating the trigger underflows the refcount of whatever page then occupies PFN 0, yielding a use-after-free read primitive over live kernel memory.\nI:H - Injecting a memblock-reserved page into the buddy free lists breaks the allocator's ownership invariant \u2014 the page is concurrently written by hardware/firmware (store status, machine-check save area) while owned by another kernel object or user mapping \u2014 and the refcount underflow on repeat triggers gives a double-free/page-reuse primitive, the classic route to controlled kernel writes.\nA:H - On 6.9/6.10 the underflowed `__pa(0)` produces a wild `struct page *` that faults in `compound_order()`, oopsing the kernel; on 6.6.y with page-checking enabled it produces a \"BUG: Bad page state\" splat and `TAINT_BAD_PAGE` (a panic under `panic_on_taint`), and with checks off the corrupted allocator state leads to subsequent oops/panic."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200", "lessThan": "794fa52b94637d6b2e8c9474fbe3983af5c9f046", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200", "lessThan": "f80bd8bb6f380bc265834c46058d38b34174813e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200", "lessThan": "b5efb63acf7bddaf20eacfcac654c25c446eabe8", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.6", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.6", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.41", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.9.10", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.9.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.10", "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": "6.6", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.41"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.6", "versionEndExcluding": "6.9.10"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.6", "versionEndExcluding": "6.10"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794fa52b94637d6b2e8c9474fbe3983af5c9f046"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f80bd8bb6f380bc265834c46058d38b34174813e"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5efb63acf7bddaf20eacfcac654c25c446eabe8"}], "title": "s390/mm: Add NULL pointer check to crst_table_free() base_crst_free()", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}, "adp": [{"metrics": [{"other": {"type": "ssvc", "content": {"id": "CVE-2024-42235", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [{"Exploitation": "none"}, {"Automatable": "no"}, {"Technical Impact": "partial"}], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2024-09-10T16:14:07.518719Z"}}}], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2024-09-11T17:34:32.266Z"}}]}}

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