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CVE-2024-44948

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Published: Sep 4, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mtrr: Check if fixed MTRRs exist before saving them MTRRs have an obsolete fixed variant for fine grained caching control of the 640K-1MB region that uses separate MSRs. This fixed variant has a separate capability bit in the MTRR capability MSR. So far all x86 CPUs which support MTRR have this separate bit set, so it went unnoticed that mtrr_save_state() does not check the capability bit before accessing the fixed MTRR MSRs. Though on a CPU that does not support the fixed MTRR capability this results in a #GP. The #GP itself is harmless because the RDMSR fault is handled gracefully, but results in a WARN_ON(). Add the missing capability check to prevent this.

Affected (9)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
1 product
Linux Kernel
Configuration A
9 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 2.6.22 to 4.19.320
From 4.20 to 5.4.282
From 5.11 to 5.15.165
From 5.16 to 6.1.105
From 5.5 to 5.10.224
From 6.2 to 6.6.46
From 6.7 to 6.10.5
Version 6.11 rc1
Version 6.11 rc2

References (11)

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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e

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