CVE-2024-50111

Summary

CVE-2024-50111 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel on LoongArch architecture. In certain irq-enabled contexts, an unaligned access exception can occur, leading to a sleeping function being called from an invalid context. This issue results in a kernel panic and may allow an attacker to gain unauthorized system access. To mitigate this vulnerability, IRQs must be enabled when unaligned access exceptions occur in irq-enabled contexts. The vulnerability is identified in the do_ale() function and is demonstrated to lead to a stack trace including the affected functions.

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