CVE-2024-50133
kernel: LoongArch: Don't crash in stack_top() for tasks without vDSO
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · November 5, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: Don't crash in stack_top() for tasks without vDSO
Not all tasks have a vDSO mapped, for example kthreads never do. If such a task ever ends up calling stack_top(), it will derefence the NULL vdso pointer and crash.
This can for example happen when using kunit:
[<9000000000203874>] stack_top+0x58/0xa8
[<90000000002956cc>] arch_pick_mmap_layout+0x164/0x220
[<90000000003c284c>] kunit_vm_mmap_init+0x108/0x12c
[<90000000003c1fbc>] __kunit_add_resource+0x38/0x8c
[<90000000003c2704>] kunit_vm_mmap+0x88/0xc8
[<9000000000410b14>] usercopy_test_init+0xbc/0x25c
[<90000000003c1db4>] kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0x184
[<90000000003c3d54>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x48
[<900000000022e4bc>] kthread+0xc8/0xd4
[<9000000000200ce8>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0xa4
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference