CVE-2024-36906

ARM: 9381/1: kasan: clear stale stack poison

Published May 30, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ARM: 9381/1: kasan: clear stale stack poison

We found below OOB crash:

[ 33.452494] ==================================================================
[ 33.453513] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[ 33.454660] Write of size 164 at addr c1d03d30 by task swapper/0/0
[ 33.455515]
[ 33.455767] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G O 6.1.25-mainline #1
[ 33.456880] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[ 33.457555] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
[ 33.458326] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c
[ 33.459072] dump_stack_lvl from print_report+0x158/0x4a4
[ 33.459863] print_report from kasan_report+0x9c/0x148
[ 33.460616] kasan_report from kasan_check_range+0x94/0x1a0
[ 33.461424] kasan_check_range from memset+0x20/0x3c
[ 33.462157] memset from refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[ 33.463064] refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0 from tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x180/0x53c
[ 33.464181] tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick from do_idle+0x264/0x354
[ 33.465029] do_idle from cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x24
[ 33.465769] cpu_startup_entry from rest_init+0xf0/0xf4
[ 33.466528] rest_init from arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x18
[ 33.467397]
[ 33.467644] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0/0
[ 33.468493] and is located at offset 112 in frame:
[ 33.469172] refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0x0/0x2ec
[ 33.469917]
[ 33.470165] This frame has 2 objects:
[ 33.470696] [32, 76) 'global_zone_diff'
[ 33.470729] [112, 276) 'global_node_diff'
[ 33.471294]
[ 33.472095] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[ 33.472862] page:3cd72da8 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x41d03
[ 33.473944] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)
[ 33.474565] raw: 00001000 ed741470 ed741470 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000001
[ 33.475656] raw: 00000000
[ 33.476050] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[ 33.476816]
[ 33.477061] Memory state around the buggy address:
[ 33.477732] c1d03c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 33.478630] c1d03c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00
[ 33.479526] >c1d03d00: 00 04 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1
[ 33.480415] ^
[ 33.481195] c1d03d80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3
[ 33.482088] c1d03e00: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 33.482978] ==================================================================

We find the root cause of this OOB is that arm does not clear stale stack
poison in the case of cpuidle.

This patch refer to arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S to resolve this issue.

From cited commit [1] that explain the problem

Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep in
C code. Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

From cited commit [2]

Extend to check for CONFIG_KASAN_STACK

[1] commit 0d97e6d8024c ("arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison")
[2] commit d56a9ef84bd0 ("kasan, arm64: unpoison stack only with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK")

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6949-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6949-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-3 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-4 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6952-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6955-1 Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6956-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6957-1 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7019-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-787
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 8:16 PM
Reserved
May 30, 2024, 3:25 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 30, 2024, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:37 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 30, 2024, 12:00 AM