CVE-2024-44949

parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 4, 2024 at 06:35 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN was defined as 16 - this is too small - it may be possible that two unrelated 16-byte allocations share a cache line. If one of these allocations is written using DMA and the other is written using cached write, the value that was written with DMA may be corrupted. This commit changes ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to be 128 on PA20 and 32 on PA1.1 - that's the largest possible cache line size. As different parisc microarchitectures have different cache line size, we define arch_slab_minalign(), cache_line_size() and dma_get_cache_alignment() so that the kernel may tune slab cache parameters dynamically, based on the detected cache line size.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 6.6.464.4 ≤ v < 6.1.1194.4 ≤ v < 6.10.54.4 ≤ v < 6.114.4 ≤ v < 6.6.466.7 ≤ v < 6.10.56.11 rc1a01fece2e4185ac173abd16d10304d73d47ebf00
Vendor states this is fixed in 00baca74fb5879e5f9034b6156671301f500f8ee (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 533de2f470baac40d3bf622fe631f15231a03c9f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 642a0b7453daff0295310774016fcb56d1f5bc7f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7ae04ba36b381bffe2471eff3a93edced843240f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.119 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.10.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.46 (unaffected)

References (5)

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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CWE
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