N/A - CVE-2024-57883

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2024-57883	First vendor Publication	2025-01-15
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-06-27

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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

mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count

The folio refcount may be increased unexpectly through try_get_folio() by caller such as split_huge_pages. In huge_pmd_unshare(), we use refcount to check whether a pmd page table is shared. The check is incorrect if the refcount is increased by the above caller, and this can cause the page table leaked:

BUG: Bad page state in process sh pfn:109324
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x66 pfn:0x109324
flags: 0x17ffff800000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
page_type: f2(table)
raw: 017ffff800000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000066 0000000000000000 00000000f2000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
...
CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 7515 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B 6.13.0-rc2master+ #7
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8
dump_stack+0x18/0x28
bad_page+0x8c/0x130
free_page_is_bad_report+0xa4/0xb0
free_unref_page+0x3cc/0x620
__folio_put+0xf4/0x158
split_huge_pages_all+0x1e0/0x3e8
split_huge_pages_write+0x25c/0x2d8
full_proxy_write+0x64/0xd8
vfs_write+0xcc/0x280
ksys_write+0x70/0x110
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x34/0x128
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

The issue may be triggered by damon, offline_page, page_idle, etc, which will increase the refcount of page table.

1. The page table itself will be discarded after reporting the
"nonzero mapcount".

2. The HugeTLB page mapped by the page table miss freeing since we
treat the page table as shared and a shared page table will not be
unmapped.

Fix it by introducing independent PMD page table shared count. As described by comment, pt_index/pt_mm/pt_frag_refcount are used for s390 gmap, x86 pgds and powerpc, pt_share_count is used for x86/arm64/riscv pmds, so we can reuse the field as pt_share_count.