CVE-2024-57929: Software Security Vulnerability Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-q6w5-274c-4fj8",
  "modified" : "2026-05-12T15:30:44Z",
  "published" : "2025-01-19T12:31:27Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-57929" ],
  "details" : "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm array: fix releasing a faulty array block twice in dm_array_cursor_end\n\nWhen dm_bm_read_lock() fails due to locking or checksum errors, it\nreleases the faulty block implicitly while leaving an invalid output\npointer behind. The caller of dm_bm_read_lock() should not operate on\nthis invalid dm_block pointer, or it will lead to undefined result.\nFor example, the dm_array_cursor incorrectly caches the invalid pointer\non reading a faulty array block, causing a double release in\ndm_array_cursor_end(), then hitting the BUG_ON in dm-bufio cache_put().\n\nReproduce steps:\n\n1. initialize a cache device\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc $262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\n2. wipe the second array block offline\n\ndmsteup remove cache cmeta cdata corig\nmapping_root=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=192 \\\n2>/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\nablock=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=$((4096*mapping_root+2056)) \\\n2>/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4k count=1 seek=$ablock\n\n3. try reopen the cache device\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc $262144\"\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\nKernel logs:\n\n(snip)\ndevice-mapper: array: array_block_check failed: blocknr 0 != wanted 10\ndevice-mapper: block manager: array validator check failed for block 10\ndevice-mapper: array: get_ablock failed\ndevice-mapper: cache metadata: dm_array_cursor_next for mapping failed\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:638!\n\nFix by setting the cached block pointer to NULL on errors.\n\nIn addition to the reproducer described above, this fix can be\nverified using the \"array_cursor/damaged\" test in dm-unit:\n  dm-unit run /pdata/array_cursor/damaged --kernel-dir <KERNEL_DIR>",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57929"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html"
  }, {
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/017c4470bff53585370028fec9341247bad358ff"
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6002bec5354f86d1a2df21468f68e3ec03ede9da"
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/738994872d77e189b2d13c501a1d145e95d98f46"
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c7c03d0e926762adf3a3a0ba86156fb5e19538b"
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e477021d252c007f0c6d45b5d13d341efed03979"
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2893c0804d86230ffb8f1c8703fdbb18648abc8"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc1ef07c3522e257e32702954f265debbcb096a7"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html"
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  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-672" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : false,
    "github_reviewed_at" : null,
    "nvd_published_at" : "2025-01-19T12:15:27Z"
  }
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