🛡️ CVE-2024-53214 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability

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

vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability

There are cases where a PCIe extended capability should be hidden from

the user. For example, an unknown capability (i.e., capability with ID

greater than PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX) or a capability that is intentionally

chosen to be hidden from the user.

Hiding a capability is done by virtualizing and modifying the 'Next

Capability Offset' field of the previous capability so it points to the

capability after the one that should be hidden.

The special case where the first capability in the list should be hidden

is handled differently because there is no previous capability that can

be modified. In this case, the capability ID and version are zeroed

while leaving the next pointer intact. This hides the capability and

leaves an anchor for the rest of the capability list.

However, today, hiding the first capability in the list is not done

properly if the capability is unknown, as struct

vfio_pci_core_device->pci_config_map is set to the capability ID during

initialization but the capability ID is not properly checked later when

used in vfio_config_do_rw(). This leads to the following warning [1] and

to an out-of-bounds access to ecap_perms array.

Fix it by checking cap_id in vfio_config_do_rw(), and if it is greater

than PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX, use an alternative struct perm_bits for direct

read only access instead of the ecap_perms array.

Note that this is safe since the above is the only case where cap_id can

exceed PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_MAX (except for the special capabilities, which

are already checked before).

[1]

WARNING: CPU: 118 PID: 5329 at drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c:1900 vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core]

CPU: 118 UID: 0 PID: 5329 Comm: simx-qemu-syste Not tainted 6.12.0+ #1

(snip)

Call Trace:

<TASK>

? show_regs+0x69/0x80

? __warn+0x8d/0x140

? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core]

? report_bug+0x18f/0x1a0

? handle_bug+0x63/0xa0

? exc_invalid_op+0x19/0x70

? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20

? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x395/0x430 [vfio_pci_core]

? vfio_pci_config_rw+0x244/0x430 [vfio_pci_core]

vfio_pci_rw+0x101/0x1b0 [vfio_pci_core]

vfio_pci_core_read+0x1d/0x30 [vfio_pci_core]

vfio_device_fops_read+0x27/0x40 [vfio]

vfs_read+0xbd/0x340

? vfio_device_fops_unl_ioctl+0xbb/0x740 [vfio]

? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0xa4/0x4b0

__x64_sys_pread64+0x96/0xc0

x64_sys_call+0x1c3d/0x20d0

do_syscall_64+0x4d/0x120

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-53214 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.12.0 up to 6.12.2)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.12 up to 6.12.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 December 2024 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-53214 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.12.0 6.12.2
linux-kernel 6.12 6.12.2

References

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