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"dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.015Z",
"datePublished": "2025-07-25T14:32:08.089Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:01:51.423Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRevert \"riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for __access_ok()\"\n\nThis reverts commit ad5643cf2f69 (\"riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for\n__access_ok()\").\n\nThis commit changes TASK_SIZE_MAX to be LONG_MAX to optimize access_ok(),\nbecause the previous TASK_SIZE_MAX (default to TASK_SIZE) requires some\ncomputation.\n\nThe reasoning was that all user addresses are less than LONG_MAX, and all\nkernel addresses are greater than LONG_MAX. Therefore access_ok() can\nfilter kernel addresses.\n\nAddresses between TASK_SIZE and LONG_MAX are not valid user addresses, but\naccess_ok() let them pass. That was thought to be okay, because they are\nnot valid addresses at hardware level.\n\nUnfortunately, one case is missed: get_user_pages_fast() happily accepts\naddresses between TASK_SIZE and LONG_MAX. futex(), for instance, uses\nget_user_pages_fast(). This causes the problem reported by Robert [1].\n\nTherefore, revert this commit. TASK_SIZE_MAX is changed to the default:\nTASK_SIZE.\n\nThis unfortunately reduces performance, because TASK_SIZE is more expensive\nto compute compared to LONG_MAX. But correctness first, we can think about\noptimization later, if required."
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"value": "AV:L - The bug is reached only through local syscalls (futex(), read()/write() with user iovecs, io_uring fixed-buffer registration) in which the attacker supplies a crafted userspace virtual address; there is no network path to the vulnerable get_user_pages_fast() check.\nAC:L - Exploitation is fully deterministic — the attacker simply passes an address in [TASK_SIZE, LONG_MAX] to a gup_fast user; there is no race and no attacker-uncontrolled condition on an affected RISC-V 64-bit kernel.\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user can invoke the affected syscalls (futex, read/write, io_uring); no capabilities or elevated privileges are required.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the flaw entirely through their own syscalls with no action required from any other user.\nS:U - The vulnerability and its impact are both contained within the OS kernel's security authority; this is a standard in-kernel memory-safety boundary bug, not a VM/sandbox escape.\nC:H - The flaw lets an unprivileged user pin present kernel PTEs (the generic pte_access_permitted() does not check _PAGE_USER) and read arbitrary kernel memory out via write()-style transfers, a full kernel-memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - Using FOLL_WRITE paths (e.g. read() into the crafted buffer) the same walk pins writable kernel pages, allowing attacker-controlled data to be written into kernel memory — an arbitrary kernel write enabling privilege escalation.\nA:H - Walking into the kernel half of the page tables and corrupting or dereferencing kernel structures can trivially oops/panic the kernel."
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