Bug 2315189 (CVE-2024-46837) - CVE-2024-46837 kernel: drm/panthor: Restrict high priorities on group_create
Summary: CVE-2024-46837 kernel: drm/panthor: Restrict high priorities on group_create
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-46837
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2315268
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-09-27 13:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-27 18:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-27 13:22:16 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/panthor: Restrict high priorities on group_create

We were allowing any users to create a high priority group without any
permission checks. As a result, this was allowing possible denial of
service.

We now only allow the DRM master or users with the CAP_SYS_NICE
capability to set higher priorities than PANTHOR_GROUP_PRIORITY_MEDIUM.

As the sole user of that uAPI lives in Mesa and hardcode a value of
MEDIUM [1], this should be safe to do.

Additionally, as those checks are performed at the ioctl level,
panthor_group_create now only check for priority level validity.

[1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/f390835074bdf162a63deb0311d1a6de527f9f89/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_csf.c#L1038


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