High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published May 20, 2024· Updated Aug 4, 2026
CVE-2024-35987
CVE-2024-35987
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: Fix loading 64-bit NOMMU kernels past the start of RAM
commit 3335068f8721 ("riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping") added logic to allow using RAM below the kernel load address. However, this does not work for NOMMU, where PAGE_OFFSET is fixed to the kernel load address. Since that range of memory corresponds to PFNs below ARCH_PFN_OFFSET, mm initialization runs off the beginning of mem_map and corrupts adjacent kernel memory. Fix this by restoring the previous behavior for NOMMU kernels.
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9cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.4,<6.6.30
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 6.4
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