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CVE-2024-26710 json

powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

published 2024-04-03 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-23972

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

KASAN is seen to increase stack usage, to the point that it was reported to lead to stack overflow on some 32-bit machines (see link).

To avoid overflows the stack size was doubled for KASAN builds in commit 3e8635fb2e07 ("powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with KASAN").

However with a 32KB stack size to begin with, the doubling leads to a 64KB stack, which causes build errors: arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S:249: Error: operand out of range (0x000000000000fe50 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007fff)

Although the asm could be reworked, in practice a 32KB stack seems sufficient even for KASAN builds - the additional usage seems to be in the 2-3KB range for a 64-bit KASAN build.

So only increase the stack for KASAN if the stack size is < 32KB.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.76, 6.6.18, 6.7.6
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.8.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26710

  • linux-aws-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1023.23~22.04.1
  • linux-gcp-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1024.26~22.04.1
  • linux-hwe-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-44.44~22.04.1
  • linux-oem-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1027.28
  • linux-azure-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1024.25~22.04.1
  • linux-nvidia-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1023.24
  • linux-oracle-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1026.26~22.04.1
  • linux-starfive-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1017.18~22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26710

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-26710 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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Sources

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