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CVE-2024-50112

Nov. 8, 2024, 8:36 p.m.

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10

Products Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
linux
  • linux_kernel
  • *, 6.12

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/lam: Disable ADDRESS_MASKING in most cases Linear Address Masking (LAM) has a weakness related to transient execution as described in the SLAM paper[1]. Unless Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) is enabled this weakness may be exploitable. Until kernel adds support for LASS[2], only allow LAM for COMPILE_TEST, or when speculation mitigations have been disabled at compile time, otherwise keep LAM disabled. There are no processors in market that support LAM yet, so currently nobody is affected by this issue. [1] SLAM: https://download.vusec.net/papers/slam_sp24.pdf [2] LASS: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230609183632.48706-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com/ [ dhansen: update SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS -> CPU_MITIGATIONS ]

Weaknesses

Date

Published: Nov. 5, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Nov. 8, 2024, 8:36 p.m.

Status : Analyzed

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

CPEs

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
o linux linux_kernel / / / / / / / /
o linux linux_kernel / / / / / / / /
o linux linux_kernel 6.12 rc1 / / / / / /
o linux linux_kernel 6.12 rc2 / / / / / /
o linux linux_kernel 6.12 rc3 / / / / / /
o linux linux_kernel 6.12 rc4 / / / / / /

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://git.kernel.org/ 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

https://git.kernel.org/ 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

https://git.kernel.org/ 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67