CVE-2024-35804

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Mark target gfn of emulated atomic instruction as dirty When emulating an atomic access on behalf of the guest, mark the target gfn dirty if the CMPXCHG by KVM is attempted and doesn't fault. This fixes a bug where KVM effectively corrupts guest memory during live migration by writing to guest memory without informing userspace that the page is dirty. Marking the page dirty got unintentionally dropped when KVM's emulated CMPXCHG was converted to do a user access. Before that, KVM explicitly mapped the guest page into kernel memory, and marked the page dirty during the unmap phase. Mark the page dirty even if the CMPXCHG fails, as the old data is written back on failure, i.e. the page is still written. The value written is guaranteed to be the same because the operation is atomic, but KVM's ABI is that all writes are dirty logged regardless of the value written. And more importantly, that's what KVM did before the buggy commit. Huge kudos to the folks on the Cc list (and many others), who did all the actual work of triaging and debugging. base-commit: 6769ea8da8a93ed4630f1ce64df6aafcaabfce64
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

19 Sep 2025, 15:58

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-401
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5
First Time Linux
Linux linux Kernel
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/225d587a073584946c05c9b7651d637bd45c0c71 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/225d587a073584946c05c9b7651d637bd45c0c71 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/726374dde5d608b15b9756bd52b6fc283fda7a06 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/726374dde5d608b15b9756bd52b6fc283fda7a06 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/910c57dfa4d113aae6571c2a8b9ae8c430975902 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/910c57dfa4d113aae6571c2a8b9ae8c430975902 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d1b22e573a3789ed1f32033ee709106993ba551 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d1b22e573a3789ed1f32033ee709106993ba551 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9bd6bb6f02bf7132c1ab192ba62bbfa52df7d66 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9bd6bb6f02bf7132c1ab192ba62bbfa52df7d66 - Patch

Information

Published : 2024-05-17 14:15

Updated : 2025-09-19 15:58


NVD link : CVE-2024-35804

Mitre link : CVE-2024-35804

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-35804


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime