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CVE-2024-27062 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau: lock the client object tree

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau: lock the client object tree. It appears the client object tree has no locking unless I've missed something else. Fix races around adding/removing client objects, mostly vram bar mappings. 4562.099306] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6677ed422bceb80c: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 4562.099314] CPU: 2 PID: 23171 Comm: deqp-vk Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6+ #27 [ 4562.099324] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI/Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI-CF, BIOS F8 11/05/2021 [ 4562.099330] RIP: 0010:nvkm_object_search+0x1d/0x70 [nouveau] [ 4562.099503] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 85 f6 74 39 48 8b 87 a0 00 00 00 48 85 c0 74 12 <48> 8b 48 f8 48 39 ce 73 15 48 8b 40 10 48 85 c0 75 ee 48 c7 c0 fe [ 4562.099506] RSP: 0000:ffffa94cc420bbf8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 4562.099512] RAX: 6677ed422bceb814 RBX: ffff98108791f400 RCX: ffff9810f26b8f58 [ 4562.099517] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9810f26b9158 RDI: ffff98108791f400 [ 4562.099519] RBP: ffff9810f26b9158 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4562.099521] R10: ffffa94cc420…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-05-01
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.8

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Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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