CVE-2024-53214

Updated: 2025-11-10 00:52:40.635085

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability There are cases where a PCIe extended capability should be hidden from the user. For example, an unknown capability (i.e., capability with ID greater than PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX) or a capability that is intentionally chosen to be hidden from the user. Hiding a capability is done by virtualizing and modifying the 'Next Capability Offset' field of the previous capability so it points to the capability after the one that should be hidden. The special case where the first capability in the list should be hidden is handled differently because there is no previous capability that can be modified. In this case, the capability ID and version are zeroed while leaving the next pointer intact. This hides the capability and leaves an anchor for the rest of the capability list. However, today, hiding the first capability in the list is not done properly if the capability is unknown, as struct vfio_pci_core_device->pci_config_map is set to the capability ID during initialization but the capability ID is not properly checked later when used in vfio_config_do_rw(). This leads to the following warning [1] and to an out-of-bounds access to ecap_perms array. Fix it by checking cap_id in vfio_config_do_rw(), and if it is greater than PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX, use an alternative struct perm_bits for direct read only access instead of the ecap_perms array. Note that this is safe since the above is the only case where cap_id can exceed PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX (except for the special capabilities, which are already checked before). [1] WARNING: CPU: 118 PID: 5329 at drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c:1900 vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core] CPU: 118 UID: 0 PID: 5329 Comm: simx-qemu-syste Not tainted 6.12.0+ #1 (snip) Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x69/0x80 ? __warn+0x8d/0x140 ? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core] ? report_bug+0x18f/0x1a0 ? handle_bug+0x63/0xa0 ? exc_invalid_op+0x19/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 ? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core] ? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x244/0x430 [vfio_pci_core] vfio_pci_rw+0x101/0x1b0 [vfio_pci_core] vfio_pci_core_read+0x1d/0x30 [vfio_pci_core] vfio_device_fops_read+0x27/0x40 [vfio] vfs_read+0xbd/0x340 ? vfio_device_fops_unl_ioctl+0xbb/0x740 [vfio] ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0xa4/0x4b0 __x64_sys_pread64+0x96/0xc0 x64_sys_call+0x1c3d/0x20d0 do_syscall_64+0x4d/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e


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Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0.0
CVSS Version 3.x HIGH 7.8

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU kernel 5.14.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1759866837 2025-10-08 04:18:28
CentOS 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1759431860 2025-10-15 20:35:09
CentOS 8.4 ELS kernel 4.18.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1763731262 2025-11-21 21:58:57
CentOS 8.5 ELS kernel 4.18.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1763734783 2025-11-21 21:58:58
CentOS Stream 8 ELS kernel 4.18.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1763722365 2025-11-21 21:58:54
CloudLinux 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.8 HIGH Ignored 2025-11-07 23:32:26 CL7 support is limited
Oracle Linux 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1759431869 2025-10-02 23:15:22
Oracle Linux 7 ELS kernel-uek 5.4.17 7.8 HIGH Already Fixed 2025-10-13 19:07:18
RHEL 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1759432250 2025-10-02 23:15:20
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux-hwe 4.15.0 7.8 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1744624441 2025-04-15 03:57:43
Total: 12