In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts. Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted. Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28 ("riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early"). However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save or restore inexistent V context.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:30:00 +0000

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


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

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


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-06-24T13:52:25.399Z

Updated: 2024-09-11T17:34:43.880Z

Reserved: 2024-06-21T11:16:40.598Z

Link: CVE-2024-38667

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:12:26.094Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-24T14:15:12.790

Modified: 2024-06-26T13:53:56.883

Link: CVE-2024-38667

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-06-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-38667 - Bugzilla